420 first-hand accounts of flood events in Connecticut, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in CT. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →A strong upper-level system brought widespread rounds of showers and thunderstorms to northwestern Connecticut on July 9-10, 2023. Northern and western portions of the county were hardest hit with rainfall amounts between 4 and 7 inches.
Read the full account →A warm front ahead of a developing coastal low pressure system positions itself over the area late on December 17th and into December 18th. As the low pressure intensified and approached, significant amounts of moisture focused along the warm front ahead of the coastal low…
Read the full account →A warm front ahead of a developing coastal low pressure system positions itself over the area late on December 17th and into December 18th. As the low pressure intensified and approached, significant amounts of moisture focused along the warm front ahead of the coastal low…
Read the full account →A warm front ahead of a developing coastal low pressure system positions itself over the area late on December 17th and into December 18th. As the low pressure intensified and approached, significant amounts of moisture focused along the warm front ahead of the coastal low…
Read the full account →An area of low pressure tracked up the East Coast and intensified in the process as it brought widespread heavy rainfall across northwestern Connecticut on December 18, 2023.
Read the full account →A slow moving severe thunderstorm produced penny sized hail in Enfield and Manchester. The storm then dumped 3 to 4 inches of rain in Bloomfield, West Hartford, and Hartford in less than one hour.
Read the full account →A hot and humid airmass combined with an approaching cold front sparked strong to severe thunderstorms across southern New Hampshire during the late afternoon and early evening hours of 27 July.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall near the North Carolina/South Carolina border at 320AM EDT September 6. Hanna then moved north/northeast across the Mid-Atlantic states and southern New England September 6 and 7.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted northward through Southern New England, igniting showers and thunderstorms across much of the area. While the main threat with many of these storms was flash flooding with precipitable water values above 2 inches, a few of the storms started rotating with…
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front allowed for widespread thunderstorm development on June 30th. MUCAPE values of 2000-3000 J/kg with PWATs near 2 allowed for thunderstorms to produce heavy rainfall with rainfall rates of 1-2 inches per hour.
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