3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A cold front dropped southward across the region and interacted with modestly moist and unstable conditions. A humid boundary layer was in place as evidenced by surface dewpoints in the upper 60s to lower 70s.
Read the full account →Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall set up across areas north of Interstate 90 during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, July 29, 2021 north of a warm front and area of low pressure.
Read the full account →Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall set up across areas north of Interstate 90 during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, July 29, 2021 north of a warm front and area of low pressure.
Read the full account →Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall set up across areas north of Interstate 90 during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, July 29, 2021 north of a warm front and area of low pressure.
Read the full account →Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall set up across areas north of Interstate 90 during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, July 29, 2021 north of a warm front and area of low pressure.
Read the full account →The moisture and remnants of Tropical Storm Fred moved across parts of the mid-Atlantic and northeast United States between August 18 to 20. As this feature moved over the central parts of New York and northeast Pennsylvania it produced locally heavy rainfall and severe flash…
Read the full account →Strong surface heating with temperatures in the 90s and dewpoints in the 70s resulted in sufficient destabilization for storms to form, specifically along lake breeze boundaries in the middle to late afternoon.
Read the full account →Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall set up across areas north of Interstate 90 during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, July 29, 2021 north of a warm front and area of low pressure.
Read the full account →Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall set up across areas north of Interstate 90 during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, July 29, 2021 north of a warm front and area of low pressure.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Fred were forecast to move across the region. Out ahead of the remnants of Fred, a slow-moving frontal zone and tropical moisture spreading north ahead of Fred allowed for a pre-cursory heavy rainfall event on August 17.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Fred were forecast to move across the region. Out ahead of the remnants of Fred, a slow-moving frontal zone and tropical moisture spreading north ahead of Fred allowed for a pre-cursory heavy rainfall event on August 17.
Read the full account →Two Pacific shortwave troughs promoted the formation and deepening of a surface low that tracked from the Great Plains, across southern Lake Michigan, and eventually to near James Bay while deepening below 980 mb. This pushed a strong cold front crossed our region.
Read the full account →Deep moisture from the Atlantic Ocean was fed into a warm frontal zone located over Central New York by low pressure near New York City. This led to areas of moderate to heavy rainfall totaling between 3 to 5 inches of rain with locally higher amounts.
Read the full account →Deep moisture from the Atlantic Ocean was fed into a warm frontal zone located over Central New York by low pressure near New York City. This led to areas of moderate to heavy rainfall totaling between 3 to 5 inches of rain with locally higher amounts.
Read the full account →Deep moisture from the Atlantic Ocean was fed into a warm frontal zone located over Central New York by low pressure near New York City. This led to areas of moderate to heavy rainfall totaling between 3 to 5 inches of rain with locally higher amounts.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system with weak winds and high levels of deep moisture pooling along a weak surface trough resulted in clusters of slow moving thunderstorms over Monroe County during the pre-dawn hours.
Read the full account →A weak upper level disturbance moved through Central New York on this day, triggering heavy rain producing thunderstorms along a stationary front during the late afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →Low pressure over the Ohio Valley allowed southeast winds out ahead of the storm system to draw in deep Atlantic moisture across Central New York. This combined with an upper level disturbance sweeping through the area produced widespread moderate to heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Low pressure over the Ohio Valley allowed southeast winds out ahead of the storm system to draw in deep Atlantic moisture across Central New York. This combined with an upper level disturbance sweeping through the area produced widespread moderate to heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee moved northward from the southern Appalachians on the 6th to the middle Atlantic states on the 7th before stalling on the 8th.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee moved northward from the southern Appalachians on the 6th to the middle Atlantic states on the 7th before stalling on the 8th.
Read the full account →A tropical moisture laden air mass produced numerous showers and thunderstorms which traveled repeatedly over the same areas of the Finger Lakes Region and Upper Mohawk Valley.
Read the full account →A hot and humid airmass was in place, providing enough energy for scattered thunderstorms to develop across the region. The hardest hit area was in the town of Whitehall, New York which saw repeated rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms during the afternoon and early evening…
Read the full account →A strong upper-level system brought widespread rounds of showers and thunderstorms to eastern New York on July 9-11, 2023. The steadiest and heaviest rainfall occurred during the afternoon hours on July 9, the early morning hours on July 10 and during the evening hours on July…
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