3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
After several days of heavy rainfall from a slow moving area of low pressure, the ground was very saturated and small streams were running high.
Read the full account →Well ahead of an approaching cold front and more tied to convective enhanced shortwave, strong thunderstorms developed in clusters early morning. Warm rain processes dominated with precipitable water values closing in on 1.8 inches.
Read the full account →Well ahead of an approaching cold front and more tied to convective enhanced shortwave, strong thunderstorms developed in clusters early morning. Warm rain processes dominated with precipitable water values closing in on 1.8 inches.
Read the full account →Well ahead of an approaching cold front and more tied to convective enhanced shortwave, strong thunderstorms developed in clusters early morning. Warm rain processes dominated with precipitable water values closing in on 1.8 inches.
Read the full account →Well ahead of an approaching cold front and more tied to convective enhanced shortwave, strong thunderstorms developed in clusters early morning. Warm rain processes dominated with precipitable water values closing in on 1.8 inches.
Read the full account →Though the primary west to east oriented frontal boundary with upper 60s to low 70s dewpoints streaming into it remained south across Ohio and Pennsylvania, a deepening low pressure system crossing New York State and a very moist air mass resulted in a dynamic moisture-laden…
Read the full account →Though the primary west to east oriented frontal boundary with upper 60s to low 70s dewpoints streaming into it remained south across Ohio and Pennsylvania, a deepening low pressure system crossing New York State and a very moist air mass resulted in a dynamic moisture-laden…
Read the full account →At Walton, record flooding occurred on the West Branch of the Delaware River. The river level rose above the flood stage of 9.5 feet Tuesday June 27th at 8:45 AM EDT. The river rose above the moderate flood level of 14 feet June 27 at 2:30 PM EDT.
Read the full account →The Susquehanna River at Unadilla rose to the 11 foot flood stage Tuesday June 27th at 09:30 pm EDT. The river continued to rise above the moderate inundation stage of 13 feet on Wednesday June 28th at 5:45 am EDT.
Read the full account →Both Broome and Susquehanna County were inundated with record flooding from the Susquehanna River near Conklin. Not only did the river rise to record levels, this left all the local tributary streams with no outlet.
Read the full account →Following a heavy snowfall event on January 19-20 over much of eastern New York, a strong low pressure system tracking through southern Canada ushered in an unseasonably warm and moist airmass on January 24th. Temperatures surged into the 40s to mid-50s.
Read the full account →Excessive runoff into the Ottawa River Basin in Canada through the early half of the summer restricted the outlet of Lake Ontario. This combined with above normal precipitation into the Lake Ontario Basin, record levels on the Great Lakes above Lake Ontario, and higher than…
Read the full account →Low pressure over the central Plains rapidly deepened as it moved into the central Great Lakes, ending up as a 970 mb low over western Quebec. A strong cold front trailing the low sliced through western New York trailing it and ushering in very gusty winds.
Read the full account →Record Flooding occurred along the shores of Lake Champlain from mid-April to mid-June. NWS Flood Stages for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gages on Lake Champlain at the ECHO Center in Burlington, VT and Rouses Point, NY are 100.0 feet and were surpassed on April…
Read the full account →A stationary front poised in the vicinity of central New York and northeast Pennsylvania was the focus for very warm and moist atmospheric conditions across the 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 →A strong low pressure system moved from the Ohio Valley to the East Coast and reformed as a powerful nor'easter while moving into New England. This provided the region with several hours of moderate to heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Deep moisture combined with an approaching cold front and a favorable position of the jet stream triggered numerous heavy rain producing thunderstorms over Central New York.
Read the full account →Above normal moisture laying across Central New York combined with an area of low pressure moving over Lake Ontario to produce numerous rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Above normal moisture laying across Central New York combined with an area of low pressure moving over Lake Ontario to produce numerous rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms during the afternoon.
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 →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 →A significant severe weather outbreak developed across central New York as a storm system moved east from the Great Lakes. First, showers and thunderstorms developed early in the evening on the 27th, as an upper level disturbance approached the region.
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.
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