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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.

Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Aug 18, 2017

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front as it lifted through the region during the morning hours. Precipitable water values around 2 resulted in rainfall rates exceeding 1.5/hour across parts of the area, producing flash flooding across parts of Suffolk and Nassau…

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Aug 18, 2017

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front as it lifted through the region during the morning hours. Precipitable water values around 2 resulted in rainfall rates exceeding 1.5/hour across parts of the area, producing flash flooding across parts of Suffolk and Nassau…

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Aug 18, 2017

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front as it lifted through the region during the morning hours. Precipitable water values around 2 resulted in rainfall rates exceeding 1.5/hour across parts of the area, producing flash flooding across parts of Suffolk and Nassau…

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Aug 18, 2017

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front as it lifted through the region during the morning hours. Precipitable water values around 2 resulted in rainfall rates exceeding 1.5/hour across parts of the area, producing flash flooding across parts of Suffolk and Nassau…

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Flash Flood

Nassau, NY · Aug 18, 2017

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front as it lifted through the region during the morning hours. Precipitable water values around 2 resulted in rainfall rates exceeding 1.5/hour across parts of the area, producing flash flooding across parts of Suffolk and Nassau…

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Flash Flood

Suffolk, NY · Aug 18, 2017

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front as it lifted through the region during the morning hours. Precipitable water values around 2 resulted in rainfall rates exceeding 1.5/hour across parts of the area, producing flash flooding across parts of Suffolk and Nassau…

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Flash Flood

Nassau, NY · Aug 18, 2017

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front as it lifted through the region during the morning hours. Precipitable water values around 2 resulted in rainfall rates exceeding 1.5/hour across parts of the area, producing flash flooding across parts of Suffolk and Nassau…

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Flash Flood

Westchester, NY · May 30, 2019

Low pressure moving along a nearly stationary boundary triggered an area of convection that moved across the region during the evening of May 30th, resulting in isolated flash flooding across the Lower Hudson Valley.

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Flash Flood

Chautauqua, NY · Jul 24, 2018

A moist environment was over the area with a deep and slow-moving closed low to the west. A cluster of thunderstorms developed over PA and tracked northeastward and over Allegany County. This resulted in 1 to 1.5 inches of rainfall and isolated flooding.

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Flood

Allegany, NY · Jul 23, 2018

A moist environment was over the area with a deep and slow-moving closed low to the west. A cluster of thunderstorms developed over PA and tracked northeastward and over Allegany County. This resulted in 1 to 1.5 inches of rainfall and isolated flooding.

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Coastal Flood

Southern Nassau, NY · Jan 20, 2019

Deepening low pressure tracked from the southeast United States on Saturday January 19, 2019 to the northeast on Sunday January 20, 2019. The low produced moderate coastal flooding along parts of the south shore of Long Island and New York City, and along western Long Island…

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Coastal Flood

Southern Queens, NY · Jan 20, 2019

Deepening low pressure tracked from the southeast United States on Saturday January 19, 2019 to the northeast on Sunday January 20, 2019. The low produced moderate coastal flooding along parts of the south shore of Long Island and New York City, and along western Long Island…

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Coastal Flood

Northern Nassau, NY · Jan 20, 2019

Deepening low pressure tracked from the southeast United States on Saturday January 19, 2019 to the northeast on Sunday January 20, 2019. The low produced moderate coastal flooding along parts of the south shore of Long Island and New York City, and along western Long Island…

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Coastal Flood

Southern Westchester, NY · Jan 20, 2019

Deepening low pressure tracked from the southeast United States on Saturday January 19, 2019 to the northeast on Sunday January 20, 2019. The low produced moderate coastal flooding along parts of the south shore of Long Island and New York City, and along western Long Island…

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Flash Flood

Ulster, NY · Jul 16, 2018

It was hot and humid on July 16th as temperatures soared into the low to mid-90s with dewpoints in the upper 60s to low 70s in the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. This resulted in heat indices reaching the mid to upper 90s.

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Flash Flood

Dutchess, NY · Sep 26, 2018

A cold front interacting with an unseasonably warm and humid airmass sparked an area of showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening of the 26th. Though these storms were mainly below severe limits, one storm produced minor damage in Saratoga County.

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Flash Flood

Queens, NY · Sep 28, 2018

As an area of low pressure and its associated warm front approached the region from the south, precipitation overspread the New York City metro area during the early morning hours of September 28th.

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Flash Flood

Richmond, NY · Sep 28, 2018

As an area of low pressure and its associated warm front approached the region from the south, precipitation overspread the New York City metro area during the early morning hours of September 28th.

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Flash Flood

Westchester, NY · Jun 19, 2017

A cold front crossing the area during the afternoon and evening produced numerous showers and thunderstorms, some of which resulted in flash flooding across parts of the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City.

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Flash Flood

Kings, NY · Jun 19, 2017

A cold front crossing the area during the afternoon and evening produced numerous showers and thunderstorms, some of which resulted in flash flooding across parts of the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City.

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Flash Flood

Orange, NY · Jun 19, 2017

A cold front crossing the area during the afternoon and evening produced numerous showers and thunderstorms, some of which resulted in flash flooding across parts of the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City.

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Flash Flood

New York, NY · Jul 17, 2018

Showers and thunderstorms developed in a moist and unstable airmass ahead of an approaching cold front, leading to isolated flash flooding across parts of the New York City Metro area.

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Flash Flood

Westchester, NY · Jul 17, 2018

Showers and thunderstorms developed in a moist and unstable airmass ahead of an approaching cold front, leading to isolated flash flooding across parts of the New York City Metro area.

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Flash Flood

New York, NY · Jul 17, 2018

Showers and thunderstorms developed in a moist and unstable airmass ahead of an approaching cold front, leading to isolated flash flooding across parts of the New York City Metro area.

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