954 first-hand accounts of flood events in Massachusetts, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 cold frontal boundary dropped south of New England on the evening of the 10th. Low pressure developed along the frontal boundary across the southeastern states late on the night of the 10th into the 11th.
Read the full account →An unusually usual late season and long duration nor'easter brought strong winds, heavy rainfall, and coastal flooding to eastern Massachusetts.
Read the full account →An unusually usual late season and long duration nor'easter brought strong winds, heavy rainfall, and coastal flooding to eastern Massachusetts.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Earl made its closest pass to Southern New England the morning of September 4th, passing 98 miles to the southeast of Nantucket Island.
Read the full account →The remnants of a Mesoscale Convective Complex over Ohio moved through southern New England, producing heavy rain that wreaked havoc over western Massachusetts.
Read the full account →A series of upper level disturbances rotated around a vertically stacked low pressure system in the Great Lakes. These provided a focus for showers and thunderstorms to develop across southern New England.
Read the full account →A powerful low pressure system tracked through eastern New York spreading heavy rain and strong winds across Southern New England. Heavy rain coinciding with spring snowmelt contributed to river flooding, especially along the Connecticut River.
Read the full account →A powerful low pressure system tracked through eastern New York spreading heavy rain and strong winds across Southern New England. Heavy rain coinciding with spring snowmelt contributed to river flooding, especially along the Connecticut River.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary across the Berkshires interacted with a strong upper level disturbance from July 15 into early July 16. The result was a slow moving low pressure area which formed over Virginia.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary across the Berkshires interacted with a strong upper level disturbance from July 15 into early July 16. The result was a slow moving low pressure area which formed over Virginia.
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 →A severe thunderstorm downed large tree limbs in Granville and Blandford. Torrential rainfall from the thunderstorm cause significant urban flooding. Several roads were closed due to flooding, including part of Route 202 in Southwick.
Read the full account →Heavy tropical rain showers produced between three to nearly six inches of rain across southeast Massachusetts during the early morning hours of 30 August 2005.
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.
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 →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 →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 →An unusually usual late season and long duration nor'easter brought strong winds, heavy rainfall, and coastal flooding to eastern Massachusetts.
Read the full account →Low pressure centered off the Virginia coast intensified into a strong Noreaster as it tracked about 75 miles southeast of Nantucket Sunday afternoon, 12 February 2006.
Read the full account →Low pressure centered off the Virginia coast intensified into a strong Noreaster as it tracked about 75 miles southeast of Nantucket Sunday afternoon, 12 February 2006.
Read the full account →A high amplitude, negatively tilted trough moving across the Great Lakes and into New England along with cold and warm front provided strong forcing which resulted in flooding, wind damage, and 5 tornadoes.
Read the full account →A high amplitude, negatively tilted trough moving across the Great Lakes and into New England along with cold and warm front provided strong forcing which resulted in flooding, wind damage, and 5 tornadoes.
Read the full account →A high amplitude, negatively tilted trough moving across the Great Lakes and into New England along with cold and warm front provided strong forcing which resulted in flooding, wind damage, and 5 tornadoes.
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