3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A southern low rapidly intensified as it raced up the East coast Sunday, and over NYC Sunday Night. This low brought a rapid onset but relatively brief period of SE gale to storm force winds Sunday evening, shifting to WNW gales Monday morning.
Read the full account →During the first six months of 2017, more than twice the normal amount of water accumulated on Lake Ontario while the Ottawa River saw the highest flows in more than 50 years, leading to widespread flooding across the Lake Ontario ��� St. Lawrence River system.
Read the full account →During the first six months of 2017, more than twice the normal amount of water accumulated on Lake Ontario while the Ottawa River saw the highest flows in more than 50 years, leading to widespread flooding across the Lake Ontario ��� St. Lawrence River system.
Read the full account →A strong upper-level trough over the Great Lakes was headed towards the Northeast on Friday, August 4th along with a weak cold front. Much of eastern New York was situated with a warm and humid air mass, allowing for the atmosphere to be rather unstable.||Strong to severe…
Read the full account →A low pressure system developed off the southeast coast and rapidly intensified as it tracked northward tapping into tropical moisture. The powerful low moved across eastern New York Sunday night into early Monday morning bringing damaging winds, power outages, heavy rainfall…
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →Developing low pressure passing near the region in a high precipitable water environment (2.27 on the 12Z 7/7 OKX sounding) resulted in heavy rainfall across much of the region that led to isolated flash flooding and river flooding across parts of the Lower Hudson Valley.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →Developing low pressure passing near the region in a high precipitable water environment (2.27 on the 12Z 7/7 OKX sounding) resulted in heavy rainfall across much of the region that led to isolated flash flooding and river flooding across parts of the Lower Hudson Valley.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →An upper-level disturbance interacted with a very moist atmosphere on July 1, generating several rounds of thunderstorms across areas mainly along and north of I-90.
Read the full account →Developing low pressure passing near the region in a high precipitable water environment (2.27 on the 12Z 7/7 OKX sounding) resulted in heavy rainfall across much of the region that led to isolated flash flooding and river flooding across parts of the Lower Hudson Valley.
Read the full account →A combination of snowmelt, rainfall and local ice jams resulted in the Great Chazy River exceeding it's flood stage. High water with low land flooding was reported from Perry Mills to the Village of Champlain.
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