3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 →A slow moving storm from the Ohio Valley brought 2 to 3 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd. Also most of the snow had melted due to mild temperatures and several inches of rain the week before.
Read the full account →An area of weak low pressure over New England and New York combined with a moist unstable airmass resulted in evening and late night thunderstorms Thursday (June 25th) into early Friday (June 26th) with locally torrential downpours.
Read the full account →The combination of rainfall and warm temperatures resulted in ice jams on several Buffalo area creeks and streams. Minor flooding was reported with only limited damage reported. There were several roads that were inundated and closed.
Read the full account →July 5th marked the sixth straight day of 90 degree temperatures at Albany, but the heat was broken by scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
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 →Localized thunderstorms early in the morning of the 8th dropped three to five inches of rain across parts of Erie, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties. Over five inches fell in just a few hours over much of Wyoming county.
Read the full account →Localized thunderstorms early in the morning of the 8th dropped three to five inches of rain across parts of Erie, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties. Over five inches fell in just a few hours over much of Wyoming county.
Read the full account →Unseasonably warm weather resulted in dramatic snowmelt with rapid rises on rivers the last few days of March. In addition, showers and thunderstorms with heavy downpours moved across the area on the 30th aggravating the flooding.
Read the full account →Localized thunderstorms early in the morning of the 8th dropped three to five inches of rain across parts of Erie, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties. Over five inches fell in just a few hours over much of Wyoming county.
Read the full account →Localized thunderstorms early in the morning of the 8th dropped three to five inches of rain across parts of Erie, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties. Over five inches fell in just a few hours over much of Wyoming county.
Read the full account →Localized thunderstorms early in the morning of the 8th dropped three to five inches of rain across parts of Erie, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties. Over five inches fell in just a few hours over much of Wyoming county.
Read the full account →Two more clusters of thunderstorms developed over the Great Lakes during the predawn hours on July 4. These storms took a very similar track to the previous storms that affected portions of the Mohawk Valley and northern Catskill region the evening of July 3.
Read the full account →A soaking rain fell over the entire region on the 23rd, but a narrow band of two to four inches fell just south of Buffalo due to enhancement off Lake Erie. Local amounts of four inches were recorded in Hamburg and Orchard Park. A State of Emergency was declared in Blasdell.
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 →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 winds following the passage of a cold front caused the Lake Erie water level to substantially rise from Ripley to Buffalo. The high water levels and waves to twelve to sixteen feet resulted in erosion of the lake shore and significant flooding at the extreme eastern end…
Read the full account →A massive convective complex moved from lower Michigan across southern Ontario near Toronto then dove southeast across the Niagara Frontier and Western Southern Tier. This followed an earlier round of strong thunderstorms and heavy rains earlier in the day.
Read the full account →A massive convective complex moved from lower Michigan across southern Ontario near Toronto then dove southeast across the Niagara Frontier and Western Southern Tier. This followed an earlier round of strong thunderstorms and heavy rains earlier in the day.
Read the full account →Localized thunderstorms early in the morning of the 8th dropped three to five inches of rain across parts of Erie, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties. Over five inches fell in just a few hours over much of Wyoming county.
Read the full account →A widespread rainfall occurred from March 15th to 16th as a slow-moving cold front dropped south from Canada and crossed upstate New York from the evening of the 14th to the morning of the 15th.
Read the full account →The flash flooding and flooding that occurred during the morning of August 4th was the result of two rounds of heavy rainfall. The first heavy rainfall event occurred during the afternoon and evening hours of August 2nd, with another bout of heavy rainfall that occurred during…
Read the full account →Heavy rain preceded the passage of a cold front. In southern Allegany county, up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time. A flash flood resulted on a tributary of the Genesee River in Shongo, located in the Town of Willing.
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