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 frontal boundary with several waves of low pressure moved across NY and VT during the afternoon of June 20th. Most of the activity was training showers with a few embedded thunderstorms that caused some localized flash flooding.
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary with several waves of low pressure moved across NY and VT during the afternoon of June 20th. Most of the activity was training showers with a few embedded thunderstorms that caused some localized flash flooding.
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary with several waves of low pressure moved across NY and VT during the afternoon of June 20th. Most of the activity was training showers with a few embedded thunderstorms that caused some localized flash flooding.
Read the full account →Steady rains during the day resulted in rivers remaining high or flooding into the early morning hours of July 2nd. In particular flooding resulted in road closures and washouts with the towns of Peru, Altona and Schuyler Falls particularly hard hit.
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 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 slow moving warm front lifting north from the Ohio Valley was the catalyst for a series torrential rain producing thunderstorms across portions of central New York.
Read the full account →An unusually strong low pressure system, for late July, descended from the Upper Great Lakes region across central New York. During the evening between July 27th and 28th, thunderstorm clusters formed in an excessively moist airmass ahead of a warm frontal boundary.
Read the full account →An unusually strong low pressure system, for late July, descended from the Upper Great Lakes region across central New York. During the evening between July 27th and 28th, thunderstorm clusters formed in an excessively moist airmass ahead of a warm frontal boundary.
Read the full account →Low pressure moved across the Great Lakes bringing moist, unstable air to the region. Showers and thunderstorms developed along lake breeze boundaries and persisted through the late afternoon and evening hours across the western southern tier and western Finger Lakes Region.
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 →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 →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 →Thunderstorms developed in a moderately unstable airmass along the lake breeze boundary that extended across the lower Genesee Valley and Western Finger Lakes. The thunderstorms produced damaging winds that downed trees and wires in Greece and Newark.
Read the full account →A stationary front which extended across eastern New York on June 9, produced isolated severe thunderstorms and flooding. At Pittstown in Rensselaer County, a severe thunderstorm downed several trees.
Read the full account →An intense storm moved from the eastern Gulf of Mexico across Western New York during the afternoon and evening hours focusing on the lower Cattaraugus Creek and Buffalo metro area.
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 →A developing low pressure system along a nearly stationary boundary intensified as it tracked northeast from western Pennsylvania into central New York from Wednesday morning on July 23rd, through Thursday morning on July 24th.
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 →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 weak boundary was draped across the Champlain Valley of New York and Vermont within an unseasonably warm and humid air mass. Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed during the mid to late afternoon hours of May 29th, a few delivered isolated wind damage.
Read the full account →A warm and humid summertime airmass was present across the region. The remnants of a small scale complex of thunderstorms moved across central New York during the peak heating of the afternoon.
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.
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