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New York Flood Stories

3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Coastal Flood

Southern Queens, NY · Mar 3, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southern Queens, NY · Mar 2, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Northwest Suffolk, NY · Mar 2, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southeast Suffolk, NY · Mar 2, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southeast Suffolk, NY · Mar 3, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Northern Nassau, NY · Mar 2, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southern Nassau, NY · Mar 3, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southwest Suffolk, NY · Mar 3, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Northwest Suffolk, NY · Mar 4, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southern Nassau, NY · Mar 4, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southwest Suffolk, NY · Mar 4, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Coastal Flood

Southern Nassau, NY · Mar 2, 2018

A powerful coastal storm impacted the region Friday through Sunday with North to Northeast Gale to Storm force winds. This resulted in several tidal cycle of minor to moderate coastal flooding Friday morning through Sunday morning, with the most widespread moderate to locally…

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Flash Flood

Washington, NY · Jan 12, 2018

After a frigid end of December and beginning of January, an unseasonably warm airmass was pumped into New York on January 12th on southerly winds. The temperatures reached the 50s and 60s during the day.

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Sep 12, 2018

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a stationary front located just north of Long Island during the afternoon of September 12th. The 8am sounding from Upton, NY recorded a precipitable water value of 2.16 inches, a record for the date based on the Storm Prediction Center's…

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Sep 12, 2018

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a stationary front located just north of Long Island during the afternoon of September 12th. The 8am sounding from Upton, NY recorded a precipitable water value of 2.16 inches, a record for the date based on the Storm Prediction Center's…

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Flash Flood

Westchester, NY · Sep 25, 2018

Rain developed across the area ahead of an approaching warm front, consolidating into a slow-moving band of heavy rain west of New York City by late morning. Precipitable water values increased from 1.84 on the morning sounding from Upton, NY to 2.13 by evening.

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Flash Flood

Queens, NY · Sep 25, 2018

Rain developed across the area ahead of an approaching warm front, consolidating into a slow-moving band of heavy rain west of New York City by late morning. Precipitable water values increased from 1.84 on the morning sounding from Upton, NY to 2.13 by evening.

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Sep 25, 2018

Rain developed across the area ahead of an approaching warm front, consolidating into a slow-moving band of heavy rain west of New York City by late morning. Precipitable water values increased from 1.84 on the morning sounding from Upton, NY to 2.13 by evening.

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Sep 25, 2018

Rain developed across the area ahead of an approaching warm front, consolidating into a slow-moving band of heavy rain west of New York City by late morning. Precipitable water values increased from 1.84 on the morning sounding from Upton, NY to 2.13 by evening.

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Flash Flood

Bronx, NY · Sep 25, 2018

Rain developed across the area ahead of an approaching warm front, consolidating into a slow-moving band of heavy rain west of New York City by late morning. Precipitable water values increased from 1.84 on the morning sounding from Upton, NY to 2.13 by evening.

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Flash Flood

Bronx, NY · Sep 25, 2018

Rain developed across the area ahead of an approaching warm front, consolidating into a slow-moving band of heavy rain west of New York City by late morning. Precipitable water values increased from 1.84 on the morning sounding from Upton, NY to 2.13 by evening.

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Flash Flood

Allegany, NY · Jul 16, 2018

A very warm and humid air mass was in place across western and north central New York. As is usually the case with an approaching cold front, thunderstorms fired up along a pre-frontal boundary that extended from the Lake Erie shoreline northeast to Rochester.

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Sep 25, 2018

Rain developed across the area ahead of an approaching warm front, consolidating into a slow-moving band of heavy rain west of New York City by late morning. Precipitable water values increased from 1.84 on the morning sounding from Upton, NY to 2.13 by evening.

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Flash Flood

Allegany, NY · Jul 4, 2018

The region was underneath a large upper level ridge with a subtle frontal boundary near the NY/PA state line. The region was in a warm and very moist air mass with precipitable water values around 1.75 inches. Thunderstorms developed across Allegany County early in the morning.

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