3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →A low pressure system formed in the Gulf Of Mexico during Monday, February 2nd. As it moved slowly northeast, it developed into a Nor'Easter, which passed off the Mid-Atlantic Coast (south of the region) during Thursday, February 5th.The Nor'Easter caused strong gusty northeast…
Read the full account →Numerous thunderstorms crossed the western southern tier and genesee valley during the evening hours. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Thousands were without electricity.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in warm, moist, unstable air during the afternoon and evening hours downing trees and power lines. Up to 5000 homes were without power at the peak of the storm. Hail up to 1 inch in diameter was reported in Perry, Wyoming county.
Read the full account →During the morning and early afternoon hours of August 8, training showers and thunderstorms with torrential downpours produced up to seven inches of rain across southern Herkimer County.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north across western New York during the morning ushering in an extremely moist air mass. Showers and thunderstorms began to develop during the early afternoon hours.
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 →A second round of storms developed during the morning hours along a nearly stationary warm front. These storms developed over pretty much the same area as overnight storms and produced additional flash flooding. Basements were flooded.
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 stalled frontal boundary resulted in moist and unstable air present over central New York. An approaching upper level system provided the forcing needed to generate severe, and torrential rain producing thunderstorms across central New York.
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 →A slow moving area of weak low pressure drifted across western and central New York producing areas of heavy rain producing thunderstorms across the Finger Lakes region.
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 →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 →Heavy rain and snowmelt combined to produce significant flooding in the northern Adirondacks. Rivers were running high due to melt from an above normal snowpack, then two to three inches of rain fell across the area on April 26 and 27.
Read the full account →Western and central New York were inundated by drenching rains as the remnants of hurricane Frances drifted north across the region on Thursday September 9th.
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 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 →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 →A mid level closed low, more typical of the cold season, passed slowly through PA and into eastern NY. Abundant moisture in the presence of this anomalous forcing produced heavy rain and flash flooding.
Read the full account →Warm and excessively moist air interacted with a weak disturbance drifting through central New York. Numerous thunderstorms erupted in the region with a concentration toward the western Finger Lakes region where torrential rainfall led to road washouts and other flash flooding…
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 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 →Heavy rainfall of 3 to 4 inches during the past 3-4 days had pre-saturated the soils across Essex County. During the afternoon of July 1st, a series of heavy rain showers and thunderstorms moved across southeast Essex County delivering very heavy localized rainfall that caused…
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