3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
High winds pushed ice in Lake Erie over the Niagara River ice boom. The strong winds and increased ice flows resulted in an ice jam along the Niagara River between the New York Power Authority Intakes and Cayuga Island.
Read the full account →High winds pushed ice in Lake Erie over the Niagara River ice boom. The strong winds and increased ice flows resulted in an ice jam along the Niagara River between the New York Power Authority Intakes and Cayuga Island.
Read the full account →Low pressure slowly moved across western and central New York and brought heavy rains and embedded thunderstorms to the region. Rainfall totaled three to six inches during the afternoon hours and resulted in flash flooding in several areas of the Finger Lakes region.
Read the full account →Warm and humid air was stagnant over New York with a stationary frontal boundary positioned along the New York-Pennsylvania border. Thunderstorms developed along this boundary, and repeatedly moved over the same locations.
Read the full account →Warm and humid air was stagnant over New York with a stationary frontal boundary positioned along the New York-Pennsylvania border. Thunderstorms developed along this boundary, and repeatedly moved over the same locations.
Read the full account →Warm and humid air was stagnant over New York with a stationary frontal boundary positioned along the New York-Pennsylvania border. Thunderstorms developed along this boundary, and repeatedly moved over the same locations.
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 →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 →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 →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 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 →Western and central New York was drenched with unprecedented January rainfalls over a 36 hour period. All of the region received between two and four inches of rain...rain which fell on bare, saturated ground.
Read the full account →A complex storm system began to evolve on Saturday December 16 across the Mississippi Valley. A surface low tracked north into the Eastern Great Lakes by December 17.
Read the full account →A few thunderstorms fired up along an occluded front on the afternoon of August 20 in eastern New York. With a humid air mass in place, a couple of the storms reached severe limits and produced very heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms during the afternoon hours produced several inches of rain over parts of the southern tier to the Finger Lakes region. The heavy rains fell on already saturated ground from storms over the past several weeks.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms during the afternoon hours produced several inches of rain over parts of the southern tier to the Finger Lakes region. The heavy rains fell on already saturated ground from storms over the past several weeks.
Read the full account →Strong thunderstorms developed in a very moist atmosphere, dropping three to five inches of rain in a short amount of time onto already saturated ground. The heavy rains produced flash flooding over parts of the southern tier and Finger Lakes.
Read the full account →As a frontal boundary moved into the region, some areas received heavy rainfall from thunderstorms during the day of Tuesday, May 21st and into the early morning hours on May 22nd. This frontal boundary become stationary across the region for Wednesday, May 22nd.
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 →The Chenango River at Sherburne rose above flood stage late on March 31st. The rise was due to rain that fell on March 28th and increasing snowmelt leading up to the 31st. The water equivalent of the snow amounted to several inches.
Read the full account →A slow moving storm from the Ohio Valley brought 2 to 3 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd. Before this storm, the Susquehanna River at Waverly, NY / Sayre, PA was already above its 11 foot flood stage due to a previous rainstorm March 28th and snowmelt.
Read the full account →A slow moving storm from the Ohio Valley brought 2 to 3 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd. Before this storm, river levels were elevated due to a previous storm March 28th and snowmelt. By the time the river fell below flood stage most of the snow had melted.
Read the full account →The Susquehanna River at Conklin continued above its flood stage of 11 feet into April. This high water was due to 1 to 3 inches of rain and more snowmelt the last week of March. A slow moving storm from the Ohio Valley brought 2 to 3 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd.
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