3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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.
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 →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 →Several rounds of thunderstorms brought one to three inches of rain to the area in just a couple of hours. This resulted in ponding of water on area roadways. Several roads were closed by flood waters. Several basements were reported flooded in Alden.
Read the full account →Several rounds of thunderstorms brought one to three inches of rain to the area in just a couple of hours. This resulted in ponding of water on area roadways. Several roads were closed by flood waters. Several basements were reported flooded in Alden.
Read the full account →Several rounds of thunderstorms brought one to three inches of rain to the area in just a couple of hours. This resulted in ponding of water on area roadways. Several roads were closed by flood waters. Several basements were reported flooded in Alden.
Read the full account →Several rounds of thunderstorms brought one to three inches of rain to the area in just a couple of hours. This resulted in ponding of water on area roadways. Several roads were closed by flood waters. Several basements were reported flooded in Alden.
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 →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →After a warm front brought soaking rains to the region, a cold front brought additional rain. The heavy precipitation fell on already saturated ground resulting in both area and river flooding. Rainfall amounts of three to four inches were reported.
Read the full account →A strong cold front moved across the region during the afternoon and evening hours. A line of thunderstorms just ahead of the front produced damaging winds that downed trees and wires across western New York through the Finger Lakes Region as well as areas east of Lake Ontario.
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 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 interacting with abundant tropical moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole dropped 3 to 6 inches of rain across central New York.
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