3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A very strong upper level disturbance along with a surface occluded front, resulted in widespread showers and thunderstorms across eastern New York during the afternoon of Memorial Day. Unseasonably cold air aloft, allowed for the formation of hail with several of the storms.
Read the full account →Flash flooding was due to an inch and a half to two and a half inches of precipitation mostly in the form of rain. Most of the rain fell in a 12 hour period during the day on the 26th. The rain fell onto a saturated snow covered ground.
Read the full account →For the third day in a row, thunderstorms fired up across eastern New York during the afternoon and evening hours of August 16. This time the culprit was a cold front, slicing through a still steamy air mass over the region.
Read the full account →A cold front was slowly approaching western New York from Michigan. Well ahead of the front, in a moist and unstable air mass, thunderstorms developed from Allegany county into the Finger Lakes Region and along the Lake Erie shore.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms with…
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms with…
Read the full account →A cold front located over the Great Lakes approached the region from the west late Monday, July 9th. A prefrontal trough well ahead of this front, in conjunction with a lake breeze boundary, and a hot, humid and unstable air mass in place, led to the rapid development of…
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system moved slowly northeast from central Pennsylvania into east central New York State during Monday, August 11th.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system interacting with abundant tropical moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole dropped 3 to 6 inches of rain across central New York.
Read the full account →A low pressure system tracked across New York State and New England during May 10 and 11. On May 12 the system moved to the east coast and intensified, this prolonged the period of precipitation.
Read the full account →A cold front moved south across New York late Friday night (5/10/96) and Saturday (5/11/96). A low pressure system developed along the front Saturday in central New York and moved into the Gulf of Maine by Sunday morning (5/12/96).
Read the full account →A cold front moved south across New York late Friday night (5/10/96) and Saturday (5/11/96). A low pressure system developed along the front Saturday in central New York and moved into the Gulf of Maine by Sunday morning (5/12/96).
Read the full account →A low pressure system tracked across New York State and New England during May 10 and 11. On May 12 the system moved to the east coast and intensified, this prolonged the period of precipitation.
Read the full account →A cold front moved south across New York late Friday night (5/10/96) and Saturday (5/11/96). A low pressure system developed along the front Saturday in central New York and moved into the Gulf of Maine by Sunday morning (5/12/96).
Read the full account →From Friday morning November 8 to Saturday morning November 9, a slow moving low pressure system tracked from northern Pennsylvania to northern New York.
Read the full account →From January 8 to January 10, the Hoosic River in northern Rensselaer and southern Washington Counties flooded, due to a combination of significant rain and snowmelt. The river crested approximately one foot over flood stage at Eagle Bridge during the morning of January 9.
Read the full account →Over the weekend of June 12 through 14, a slow moving low pressure system just off the southern New England coast produced very heavy rains across much of the Catskills and eastern Mohawk Valley. Three day precipitation totals reached 8 to10 inches in some locations.
Read the full account →Over the weekend of June 12 through 14, a slow moving low pressure system just off the southern New England coast produced very heavy rains across much of the Catskills and eastern Mohawk Valley. Three day precipitation totals reached 8 to10 inches in some locations.
Read the full account →A warmup at the end of Feburary, began melting the winter snowpack fairly quickly and helped break up an extensive ice pack on the upper Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. As a result, ice jams developed on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers.
Read the full account →Heavy rains from thunderstorm complexes brought anywhere from 2 to 4 inches of rainfall to the Western Mohawk basin on May 10. Another series of thunderstorms brought several more inches of torrential rain to the same area on May 13.
Read the full account →A large scale storm system crossed the region on January 31st-February 1st bringing precipitation amounts of two to three inches to the region. The heavy rains on bare, saturated ground caused area creeks to rise with several exceeding flood stage.
Read the full account →A large scale storm system crossed the region on January 31st-February 1st bringing precipitation amounts of two to three inches to the region. The heavy rains on bare, saturated ground caused area creeks to rise with several exceeding flood stage.
Read the full account →A large scale storm system crossed the region on January 31st-February 1st bringing precipitation amounts of two to three inches to the region. The heavy rains on bare, saturated ground caused area creeks to rise with several exceeding flood stage.
Read the full account →The Tioughnioga River at Cortland went over the 8 foot flood stage on the 27th. The river crested at 8.61 from 12:43 to 1:13 AM EST on the 28th before falling back below flood stage just before noon of that same day.
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