3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →Thunderstorms developed ahead of a slow moving cold front tracking through Western and Central New York during the afternoon and evening. Numerous thunderstorm complexes moved over the same locations in Onondaga county producing up to 6 inches of rain in a short amount of time.
Read the full account →Periods of heavy rain continued throughout the day. Bands of torrential rain produced widespread and significant flash flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas, including streets, basements, roofs, and ceilings, as well as small creeks throughout Nassau and Suffolk…
Read the full account →Periods of heavy rain continued throughout the day. Bands of torrential rain produced widespread and significant flash flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas, including streets, basements, roofs, and ceilings, as well as small creeks throughout Nassau and Suffolk…
Read the full account →Weak low pressure systems embedded in a hot and humid airmass over the region contributed to several rounds of heavy rain-producing thunderstorm activity.
Read the full account →Low pressure moved northeast through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River valley, bringing a plume of deep moisture into Central New York. Rain, with embedded bands of thunderstorms, developed ahead of the low pressure area during the day of 31 October.
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 →Hurricane Irene brought heavy rains and high winds from northeast Pennsylvania to the Catskill Mountains of New York from Saturday evening the 27th to Sunday afternoon the 28th.
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 stalled warm front was the focus for heavy showers and embedded thunderstorms which trained across the western Southern tier. Rainfall amounts of one to three inches in just a few hours resulted in flash flooding across the region. Roads and culverts were washed out.
Read the full account →A warm front was stalled from southwest Ontario across central Lake Erie into northwest Pennsylvania. The front remained nearly stationary through the night and morning of the 21st and was the focus of steady, often moderate to heavy, rain over Chautauqua County.
Read the full account →A convective complex moved across Western New York late in the morning. This produced a quick 2 to 4 inches of rain which covered a significant portion of the region and resulted in flash flooding that impacted the Buffalo metro area, the Boston/Wyoming hills and parts of the…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along the lake breezes during the afternoon hours. In Allegany County, the thunderstorms that formed along the Lake Erie breeze downed trees and wires in Belmont, Scio and Andover.
Read the full account →A convective complex moved across Western New York late in the morning. This produced a quick 2 to 4 inches of rain which covered a significant portion of the region and resulted in flash flooding that impacted the Buffalo metro area, the Boston/Wyoming hills and parts of the…
Read the full account →A complex storm system moved from the Lower Mississippi valley to lower Ontario during this time period. Warm and moist air surged northward from the Gulf of Mexico bringing rain and temperatures in the lower 50s.
Read the full account →A complex storm system moved from the Lower Mississippi valley to lower Ontario during this time period. Warm and moist air surged northward from the Gulf of Mexico bringing rain and temperatures in the lower 50s.
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 →Tropical Storm Irene moved across southeast New York and southwest New England during the morning hours of August 28th and then proceeded to track north along the Connecticut River Valley in Vermont during the afternoon and evening.||Strong to damaging winds in excess of 60 mph…
Read the full account →Up to six feet of snow which fell during two lake effect events the previous week melted as temperatures climbed into the 60s. Snow water equivalents ranged from four to six inches.
Read the full account →A slow moving upper level low pressure system interacted with a surface frontal boundary to induce torrential rain-producing thunderstorms. These storms moved into Central New York during the afternoon and repeatedly struck the same areas leading to localized flash flooding of…
Read the full account →A slow moving upper level low pressure system interacted with a surface frontal boundary to induce torrential rain-producing thunderstorms. These storms moved into Central New York during the afternoon and repeatedly struck the same areas leading to localized flash flooding of…
Read the full account →An upper-level low pressure system was the driving force of scattered storms across Central New York. Warm and moist air contributed to several rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms over the Central Southern Tier.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary supported scattered thunderstorms across Central New York. Ahead of the front, an unstable environment triggered rounds of repeating, heavy rain producing thunderstorms that moved over the same areas.
Read the full account →Strong thunderstorms developed in a very moist atmosphere, dropping three to five inches of rain in a short amount of time onto already saturated ground. The heavy rains produced flash flooding over parts of the southern tier and Finger Lakes.
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