3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A north-south oriented stationary front extended along the spine of the Appalachian mountains through Pennsylvania and into the southern counties of New York state. A stronger cold front was pushing in from the Great Lakes.
Read the full account →Torrential record rainfall, which caused serious widespread urban, small stream, and river flooding, preceded the remnants of Hurricane Floyd, which passed over Western Suffolk County of Long Island from 7 pm to 9 pm on September 16th.Death: In Rockland County, a 53-year old…
Read the full account →A warm front began advancing across Central New York by early in the afternoon. This feature triggered numerous rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms from the southern Finger Lakes through the Southern Tier of NY.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along the leading edge of a well-defined shortwave moving from Southern Ontario into Western New York. The storms moved across southern Erie county and rapidly intensified.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along the leading edge of a well-defined shortwave moving from Southern Ontario into Western New York. The storms moved across southern Erie county and rapidly intensified.
Read the full account →A harsh winter built a much above normal snow pack in the Black River basin and this snow pack contributed significantly to flooding in that region. At the beginning of the month, snow water equivalent averaged about twice the normal value on the Tug Hill.
Read the full account →At Delhi, New York, major flooding occurred on the West Branch of the Delaware River. The river rose above the flood stage of 8 feet June 27th at 9:20 PM EDT. The river rose above the moderate flood level of 9.5 feet June 28th at 2:30 AM EDT.
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…
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 →An organized area of thunderstorms developed over the northern Great Lakes in association with an upper level disturbance and warm front. The thunderstorms moved southeast into a warm, humid and unstable airmass, entering the southern Tug Hill Plateau and western Mohawk Valley…
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary across eastern New York interacted with a strong upper level disturbance on July 15. The result was a slow-moving low pressure area that formed over Virginia.
Read the full account →A warm front stretching across the region focused heavy rain over the counties along the south shore of Lake Ontario. Two to four inches fell across Orleans and Monroe counties with over five inches over a portion of Wayne and northern Cayuga counties.
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 →A complex area of low pressure lifted across New York and then stalled near Quebec. The low brought periods of rain with embedded heavier showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →A developing area of low pressure moved from the Gulf of Mexico on during the night of the 30th and moved north into the eastern Great Lakes as it intensified during the evening of October 31st.
Read the full account →Scattered, slow moving thunderstorms developed over portions of central New York during the afternoon and evening of June 1st. Thunderstorms became attached to the hillsides in Steuben county, bringing 1 to 2 inches of locally heavy rainfall in less than an hour to rural areas…
Read the full account →Above normal to record precipitation of 5 to 9 inches occurred in April across a large area of New York State. There was above normal snowpack across the higher elevations of the Adirondacks with snow depths at least a foot above normal.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front brought heavy rain and thunderstorms to the Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes. In Monroe county, the thunderstorms produced rainfall measured at near two inches in about twenty minutes. The heavy rains overwhelmed many storm systems in the Rochester area.
Read the full account →A deep area of low pressure over central Ontario, combined with a complex arrangement of surface frontal features led to the development of several rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms across central New York during the afternoon and evening hours of the 14th.
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 →Showers and thunderstorms developed along the leading edge of a well-defined shortwave moving from Southern Ontario into Western New York. The storms moved across southern Erie county and rapidly intensified.
Read the full account →A stationary front along the southern periphery of the polar jet stream remained resident across Central New York for much of the day. This feature triggered numerous rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →A stationary front along the southern periphery of the polar jet stream remained resident across Central New York for much of the day. This feature triggered numerous rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →A warm front began advancing across Central New York by early in the afternoon. This feature triggered numerous rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms from the southern Finger Lakes through the Southern Tier of NY.
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