3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Category 1 Hurricane Isaias with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, NC at 11:10 pm on August 3rd. Isaias' intensity weakened back to Tropical Storm strength as its forward speed increased to near 30 mph early morning of August 4th.||The…
Read the full account →Category 1 Hurricane Isaias with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, NC at 11:10 pm on August 3rd. Isaias' intensity weakened back to Tropical Storm strength as its forward speed increased to near 30 mph early morning of August 4th.||The…
Read the full account →Category 1 Hurricane Isaias with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, NC at 11:10 pm on August 3rd. Isaias' intensity weakened back to Tropical Storm strength as its forward speed increased to near 30 mph early morning of August 4th.||The…
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex pulled a pair of fronts across the area during the afternoon and evening near the time of peak heating. Due to cloud cover ahead of the MCV, instability was not very strong, however shear was impressive.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex pulled a pair of fronts across the area during the afternoon and evening near the time of peak heating. Due to cloud cover ahead of the MCV, instability was not very strong, however shear was impressive.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex pulled a pair of fronts across the area during the afternoon and evening near the time of peak heating. Due to cloud cover ahead of the MCV, instability was not very strong, however shear was impressive.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex pulled a pair of fronts across the area during the afternoon and evening near the time of peak heating. Due to cloud cover ahead of the MCV, instability was not very strong, however shear was impressive.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex pulled a pair of fronts across the area during the afternoon and evening near the time of peak heating. Due to cloud cover ahead of the MCV, instability was not very strong, however shear was impressive.
Read the full account →A warm front brought heavy rains to the western southern tier of New York. Portions of Chautauqua County received upwards of two inches of rain in about two hours. Several local roads were damaged by the flash flooding that resulted.
Read the full account →A cold front swept through Central New York, kicking off numerous thunderstorms. An unstable environment favored scattered severe thunderstorms with torrential rainfall over a short period of time.
Read the full account →A cold front swept through Central New York, kicking off numerous thunderstorms. An unstable environment favored scattered severe thunderstorms with torrential rainfall over a short period of time.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms dropped several inches of rain on already saturated ground. In Wyoming County, Route 19 was closed while portions of Saltvale Road between Wyoming an d Warsaw was mud- and water-covered.
Read the full account →A strong cold front approached eastern New York from the west Tuesday afternoon on June 19th, and produce widespread showers and thunderstorms, some of which were severe.||In addition, several clusters of thunderstorms containing very heavy rainfall moved across portions of the…
Read the full account →Scattered,slow moving thunderstorms developed once again across eastern New York during the afternoon of August 4. Rains from these storms were torrential and produced flooding in the cities of Fonda and Canajoharie in Montgomery County.
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 cold front moved across eastern New York and western New England on Wednesday, December 10th, ushering a cold airmass into the region. A low pressure system developed over the southeast states Wednesday and Wednesday night.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across eastern New York and western New England on Wednesday, December 10th, ushering a cold airmass into the region. A low pressure system developed over the southeast states Wednesday and Wednesday night.
Read the full account →Unseasonably warm weather resulted in dramatic snowmelt with rapid rises on rivers the last few days of March. In addition, showers and thunderstorms with heavy downpours moved across the area on the 30th enhancing the runoff into streams and rivers.
Read the full account →A stationary front draped across northern New York along with weak impulses aloft developed scattered thunderstorms across portions of northern New York during the afternoon of August 9th.
Read the full account →An isolated thunderstorm crossed Allegany County bringing strong winds and heavy rains to Angelica, Belfast and Amity. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Trees fell on several houses and crushed an unoccupied pickup truck.
Read the full account →Waverly (NY)/Sayre (PA) on the Susquehanna River went over its flood stage of 11 feet at 6:42 AM on November 30th. The river crested at 13.11 feet from 5:15 and 6 PM on the 30th before falling back below flood stage at 11:05 AM on December 1st.
Read the full account →From January 8 to January 10, the East Canada Creek flooded in southern Herkimer, Fulton and Montgomery Counties, due to a combination of significant rain and snowmelt. The creek experienced a 80 year peak flow.
Read the full account →A couple rounds of showers and thunderstorms resulted in heavy rain and flooding as well as some damaging wind reports (downed trees and powerlines) across eastern New York on September 13, 2022.
Read the full account →A couple rounds of showers and thunderstorms resulted in heavy rain and flooding as well as some damaging wind reports (downed trees and powerlines) across eastern New York on September 13, 2022.
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