1,019 first-hand accounts of flood events in Maryland, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A southerly flow pumped in plenty of moisture from the Atlantic while a slow moving cold moved into the area. Copious amounts of moisture ahead of the boundary led to showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →High pressure resided across the east coast while a warm front was located across the Carolinas. Moist air continued to move into the Mid Atlantic as showers intensified ahead of the warm front. Heavy rain produced flooding in parts of the Washington DC and Baltimore Metro Areas.
Read the full account →***Flood/Flash Flood***An unprecedented combination, in recent history, of unseasonably warm, humid air overriding a dense snow pack estimated between 12 and 18 inches (but up to 2 feet or more at higher elevations) caused nearly all of the pack to vanish in a 12-hour period.
Read the full account →Torrential convective rainfall moved across the northern tier of central Maryland during the early morning hours on the 19th, producing widespread and in some cases catastrophic flooding across the area.
Read the full account →Hurricane Floyd battered the Maryland Eastern Shore on September 16th and brought with it torrential rains and damaging winds. The hurricane caused widespread flash flooding as storm totals averaged around ten inches, most of which fell in a twelve hour period from the early…
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed over the region on the 7th as a warm front lifted north into southern Pennsylvania. The thunderstorms across Northeast Maryland produced strong winds that downed trees and power lines, penny size hail, and flooding.
Read the full account →Spiral bands associated with Hurricane Fran affected the Lower Maryland Eastern Shore during Friday, September 6th. The highest sustained wind speed recorded was 22 mph at Salisbury with the highest gust at 35 mph.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Isabel caused a record breaking tide and storm surge up the Chesapeake Bay, heavy rain and strong power outage producing winds. Isabel made landfall as a hurricane near Drum Inlet, North Carolina around 100 p.m.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Isabel caused a record breaking tide and storm surge up the Chesapeake Bay, heavy rain and strong power outage producing winds. Isabel made landfall as a hurricane near Drum Inlet, North Carolina around 100 p.m.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Isabel caused a record breaking tide and storm surge up the Chesapeake Bay, heavy rain and strong power outage producing winds. Isabel made landfall as a hurricane near Drum Inlet, North Carolina around 100 p.m.
Read the full account →A rapidly deepening low pressure system moved northeast from western North Carolina into eastern Pennsylvania from the evening of December 20th, into the morning of December 21st.
Read the full account →A quasi-stationary boundary over the area provided a focus for shower and thunderstorm activity on the 12th. The thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall and strong gusty winds. Baltimore and Harford Counties had downed trees and power lines.
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Sandy moving northward well off the Mid Atlantic Coast then northwest into extreme southern New Jersey produced very strong northeast winds followed by very strong west or northwest winds.
Read the full account →A southerly flow pumped in plenty of moisture from the Atlantic while a slow moving cold moved into the area. Copious amounts of moisture ahead of the boundary led to showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →A southerly flow pumped in plenty of moisture from the Atlantic while a slow moving cold moved into the area. Copious amounts of moisture ahead of the boundary led to showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Post Tropical Storm Sandy caused an initial estimate of $5 million dollars in damage in the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Most of the damages were due to flooding caused by excessive rainfall, as up to 13 inches of rain were reported, and due to the high winds, which caused trees…
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Ivan interacting with a slowly moving cold front caused very heavy rain to fall during the late morning and early afternoon of the 18th in the eastern part of the county. Flooding was reported along the Big Elk Creek along Maryland State Route 7.
Read the full account →Hurricane Irene tracked up the Mid-Atlantic Coast during the evening hours of the 27th through the early morning hours of the 28th. Irene passed by just to the east of Ocean City, Maryland during the early morning hours of the 28th.
Read the full account →Tropical Cyclone Sandy moving northward well off the Mid Atlantic Coast then northwest into extreme southern New Jersey produced very strong northeast winds followed by very strong west or northwest winds.
Read the full account →Following the passage of a coastal low, bands of moisture continued to pull northward across the same areas that had already experienced heavy rain.
Read the full account →Hurricane Irene produced heavy flooding rain, tropical storm force wind gusts and caused one wind related death across the Eastern Shore. Preliminary damage estimates were around three million dollars and approximately 85,000 homes and businesses lost power.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee that interacted with a stalled frontal boundary produced several days with periods of heavy rain across the Maryland Eastern Shore from the 5th into the 9th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Irene produced heavy flooding rain, tropical storm force wind gusts and caused one wind related death across the Eastern Shore. Preliminary damage estimates were around three million dollars and approximately 85,000 homes and businesses lost power.
Read the full account →Hurricane Floyd made landfall just east of Cape Fear, North Carolina in the early morning hours of the 16th and moved north-northeast across extreme southeast Virginia to near Ocean City, Maryland by evening on the 16th.
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