3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 already above its 18 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 4 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd. Before this storm, the rivers had high flows due to a previous rainstorm March 28th and snowmelt. By the time the river fell below flood stage most of the snow had melted.
Read the full account →A slow moving storm from the Ohio Valley brought 2 to 4 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd. Before this storm, the rivers had high flows due to a previous rainstorm March 28th and snowmelt. By the time the river fell below flood stage most of the snow had melted.
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 →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 →Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours across parts of the Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes. Training thunderstorms dropped upwards of four inches of rain across northern Livingston County in about an hour.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed as a warm front lifted north across the area. The thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts that downed trees in Lyons and Clyde in Wayne county and Victor in Ontario county.
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 →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 →Rain and melting snow swelled rivers and streams around Central New York during the first week in April. The Susquehanna River flooded in many areas with levels reaching moderate flood stage at Conklin and Vestal.
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 →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 →An upper level trough widespread showers over northern New York county as an stationary band developed across west-central Saint Lawrence that produced flash flooding.
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 →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 shield of moderate to heavy rainfall, associated with the remnants of tropical cyclone Ida, moved from the DelMarVa peninsula to New England.
Read the full account →A warm front positioned over Northeast Pennsylvania acted as the focus for several rounds of late night and early morning thunderstorm activity in the area.
Read the full account →A complex array of surface frontal boundaries and upper level disturbances produced scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms across the Southern Tier of New York.
Read the full account →A slow moving storm from the Ohio Valley brought 1 to 4 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd. Before this storm, the rivers and streams had high flows due to a previous rainstorm March 28th and snowmelt. All towns were affected in the county by flash flooding.
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours across the western sections of New York. Isolated thunderstorms produced damaging winds in Delevan and Jamestown where trees and wires were downed.
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 →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.
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