3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A warm front surged into central New York during the late afternoon and evening hours. This front triggered areas of slow moving, torrential rain producing, thunderstorms over portions of the region.
Read the full account →A warm front surged into central New York during the late afternoon and evening hours. This front triggered areas of slow moving, torrential rain producing, thunderstorms over portions of the region.
Read the full account →A warm front surged into central New York during the late afternoon and evening hours. This front triggered areas of slow moving, torrential rain producing, thunderstorms over portions of the region.
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 →Intense rainfall from a thunderstorm caused flash flooding in the city of Fulton during the late afternoon hours. Just over an inch of rain fell in less than a half hour. The flowing water washed away the foundation and collapsed basement walls of two houses on Seneca street.
Read the full account →Hurricane Irene brought heavy rains and high winds from northeast Pennsylvania to the Catskill Mountains of New York from Saturday evening the 27th to Sunday afternoon the 28th.
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 →For the third day in a row, thunderstorms dumped heavy rains on the western southern tier. More flash flooding occurred on area creeks and streams. Roads were washed out or undermined. Several bridges were washed out or damaged.
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 and streams had high flows due to a previous rainstorm March 28th and snowmelt. The hardest hit areas were in the southern part of the 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 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 →Soaking rains fell across the region. Combined with the antecedent wet conditions (the three month March through May period was the second wettest on record in Rochester) area creeks rain high and in some cases overflowed.
Read the full account →From Friday morning November 8 to Saturday morning November 9, a slow moving low pressure system tracked from northern Pennsylvania to northern New York.
Read the full account →Bands of heavy rain circulating around low pressure became enhanced by the relatively warm waters of Lake Erie. The activity focused in the northwest portion of the county with the cities of Kenmore, Tonawanda, and northwest Buffalo bearing the brunt of the heaviest downpours.
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 →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 →A complex area of low pressure moved from the Great Lakes to the Northeast United States triggering numerous thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across the region during the late afternoon and night of August 11th into the early morning of August 12th. With a warm humid airmass in place, thunderstorms resulted in torrential downpours during the night.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the morning along a lake breeze. The nearly stationary thunderstorm dropped one to two inches of rain over the Towns of Brocton, Pomfret and Portland. Over 40 homes were evacuated because of flood waters with several roads and bridges damaged.
Read the full account →A cold front crossing the region during the evening hours was accompanied by showers and thunderstorms. The thunderstorms produced damaging winds that downed trees and wires in Shortsville, Clifton Springs, Newark, Phelps, Lyons, and Oswego.
Read the full account →A moist environment was over the area with a deep and slow-moving closed low to the west. A cluster of thunderstorms developed over PA and tracked northeastward and over Allegany County. This resulted in 1 to 1.5 inches of rainfall and isolated flooding.
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.
Read the full account →Isolated, nearly stationary thunderstorms produced torrential rainfall across portions of central New York. Locally heavy rain produced several areas of flash flooding on small streams and across roadways, including several mudslides near the border of Chenango and Otsego…
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