954 first-hand accounts of flood events in Massachusetts, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced flash flooding in Hampden and Worcester Counties. In Granville, torrential rainfall caused Cooley Pond to overflow, causing a temporary closure of Water Street.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern Massachusetts. The storms brought dime sized hail to Billerica, then downed trees and wires in Woburn and Burlington.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms dropped dime sized hail in Ludlow, and also downed large trees and branches in Leominster, Shirley, and Harvard. In Leominster, torrential rainfall in a short period of time resulted in significant urban flooding.
Read the full account →A late season coastal storm brought heavy rainfall to much of eastern Massachusetts, resulting in widespread flooding of roads and small streams.
Read the full account →An unusually strong and slow moving coastal storm for mid April tracked to western Long Island Sound on April 16th before weakening slowly and drifting offshore.
Read the full account →An unusually strong and slow moving coastal storm for mid April tracked to western Long Island Sound on April 16th before weakening slowly and drifting offshore.
Read the full account →An unusually strong and slow moving coastal storm for mid April tracked to western Long Island Sound on April 16th before weakening slowly and drifting offshore.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm and then Hurricane Kyle moved east of Massachusetts on its trek towards Maine and Nova Scotia. The effects of Kyle were minimal on Southern New England with heavy rainfall and high surf the only concerns.
Read the full account →The combination of high astronomical tides and an intensifying coastal storm tracking south of New England caused some of the worst flooding along the eastern Massachusetts coast in over a decade.
Read the full account →Cold air aloft moved over southern New England in conjunction with an upper level disturbance. The combination of these things resulted in an unstable atmosphere that produced showers and thunderstorms across southern New England.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across southern New England into a warm moist airmass with plenty of instability. This resulted in severe thunderstorms and in some cases training of storms that resulted in flash flooding across some of the more urban areas.
Read the full account →A rare and historic October Nor'easter brought very heavy snow to portions of southern New England on Saturday October 29. Low pressure tracked northeast from the North Carolina coast Saturday morning, rapidly strengthening as it passed well south of Nantucket Saturday evening.
Read the full account →A rare and historic October Nor'easter brought very heavy snow to portions of southern New England on Saturday October 29. Low pressure tracked northeast from the North Carolina coast Saturday morning, rapidly strengthening as it passed well south of Nantucket Saturday evening.
Read the full account →A complex storm system began to evolve on Saturday December 16 across the Mississippi Valley. A surface low tracked north into the Eastern Great Lakes by December 17.
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary, combined with plenty of heat and humidity, led to the development of showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →Low pressure just south of the New England coast intensified early on March 4 and moved off the coast during the day. Heavy snow occurred in the higher terrain of northern and western MA, while mixed precipitation occurred elsewhere.
Read the full account →An unusually strong and slow moving coastal storm for mid April tracked to western Long Island Sound on April 16th before weakening slowly and drifting offshore.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms pushed across Massachusetts during the afternoon of July 6, 2005. With a moist airmass in place, these storms produced locally heavy downpours of rain, especially over Middlesex and Suffolk counties, where streets were closed and basements were flooded…
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms pushed across Massachusetts during the afternoon of July 6, 2005. With a moist airmass in place, these storms produced locally heavy downpours of rain, especially over Middlesex and Suffolk counties, where streets were closed and basements were flooded…
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed across Massachusetts in a hot and humid airmass ahead of a weak cold front during the afternoon and evening hours of 14 August 2005. These thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts, large hail, and flash flooding.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms brought damaging winds, hail, lightning strikes, and localized flooding to much of central and eastern Massachusetts. During the late afternoon, thunderstorm winds brought down large branches and wires in Worcester County from Athol to Leicester.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms brought damaging winds, hail, lightning strikes, and localized flooding to much of central and eastern Massachusetts. During the late afternoon, thunderstorm winds brought down large branches and wires in Worcester County from Athol to Leicester.
Read the full account →A late season coastal storm brought heavy rainfall to much of eastern Massachusetts, resulting in widespread flooding of roads and small streams.
Read the full account →Low pressure over the mid Atlantic states strengthened as it tracked over southeast New England. Snow changed to a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain, before an eventual change to rain over most of Massachusetts.
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