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 →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 →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 →The remnants of Hurricane Floyd moved up the eastern seaboard on September 16 and during the early hours on September 17. The storm brought both high winds and exceptionally heavy rainfall to eastern New York, which included a large swath of 3 to 6 inch amounts.
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 →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 →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 →A slow moving warm front pushed northward across central New York late in the afternoon on April 25th. A warm and relatively moist air mass covered the region, with showers and storms developing, especially in the unstable air south of the frontal boundary, where breaks in the…
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 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 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 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 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 →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 →On the 20th, a strong storm lifted across the Upper Lakes which brought warmer temperatures and some rain to the region. The steadiest rains fell in the Buffalo creeks basin, where one to two inches of rainfall combined with snow melt to cause flooding on several creeks.
Read the full account →Heavy rain along a slow moving cold front produced flooding across parts of the Genesee River valley and Finger Lakes region. Rainfall amounts of two to three inches fell on already rain-soaked soils. Honeoye Creek reached crested at 5.63 feet, a moderate flood.
Read the full account →Heavy rain along a slow moving cold front produced flooding across parts of the Genesee River valley and Finger Lakes region. Rainfall amounts of two to three inches fell on already rain-soaked soils. Honeoye Creek reached crested at 5.63 feet, a moderate flood.
Read the full account →Heavy rain along a slow moving cold front produced flooding across parts of the Genesee River valley and Finger Lakes region. Rainfall amounts of two to three inches fell on already rain-soaked soils. Honeoye Creek reached crested at 5.63 feet, a moderate flood.
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