3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 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 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 →A slow moving frontal boundary and area of low pressure moved across the region and brought several rounds of rain totaling over an inch. The rainfall, mild temperatures, and moist dew points melted virtually all of the snowpack from the previous snows across the Southern Tier.
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary and area of low pressure moved across the region and brought several rounds of rain totaling over an inch. The rainfall, mild temperatures, and moist dew points melted virtually all of the snowpack from the previous snows across the Southern Tier.
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary and area of low pressure moved across the region and brought several rounds of rain totaling over an inch. The rainfall, mild temperatures, and moist dew points melted virtually all of the snowpack from the previous snows across the Southern Tier.
Read the full account →The month of April began on a wet note following a wet March. Several areas creeks reached flood stage. Irondequoit Creek in Monroe county peaked at 9.44 feet at 9:45 AM EST on the 7th.
Read the full account →A warm and humid airmass remained stagnant over Central New York on this day. A weak upper level disturbance moved through the region, triggering heavy rain producing thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a weak surface boundary drifting through central New York. Conditions were excessively moist, leading to several heavy rain producing thunderstorms that marched through the Central Leatherstocking Region.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system moved slowly northeast from central Pennsylvania into east central New York State during Monday, August 11th.
Read the full account →An intense area of low pressure which was located over the Mid-Atlantic region on Friday morning January 19th produced unseasonably warm temperatures, high dewpoints and strong winds. This resulted in rapid melting of one to three feet of snow.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms moved across the southern tier during the late evening dropping two to three inches of rain in three to four hours. Shortly after, another round of storms crossed the same area bringing additional rain that resulted in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Several clusters of thunderstorms repeatedly moved along a warm front in the vicinity of the Finger Lakes region. Radar rainfall estimates indicated a narrow band of 4 to 5 inches of rain occurred over the central portion of Yates and Seneca counties.
Read the full account →Several clusters of thunderstorms repeatedly moved along a warm front in the vicinity of the Finger Lakes region. Radar rainfall estimates indicated a narrow band of 4 to 5 inches of rain occurred over the central portion of Yates and Seneca counties.
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 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 →Heavy rain and snowmelt combined to produce significant flooding in the northern Adirondacks. Rivers were running high due to melt from an above normal snowpack, then two to three inches of rain fell across the area on April 26 and 27.
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 →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 →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 →On Friday October 18th, a strong low pressure system developed on a cold front over the DelMarVa Peninsula. With a high pressure system in place across Northern New England, the low slowly intensified and moved slowly off the Southern New Jersey Coast during Saturday October…
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