3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An abrupt change to warmer weather at mid-month resulted in a quick meltdown of the winter snowpack. Area creeks rose to near or above bankful with three creeks in western New York exceeding flood stage.
Read the full account →An abrupt change to warmer weather at mid-month resulted in a quick meltdown of the winter snowpack. Area creeks rose to near or above bankful with three creeks in western New York exceeding flood stage.
Read the full account →An abrupt change to warmer weather at mid-month resulted in a quick meltdown of the winter snowpack. Area creeks rose to near or above bankful with three creeks in western New York exceeding flood stage.
Read the full account →Saturated ground, snowmelt from warm weather and additional rainfall resulted in ideal conditions for spring flooding. Thirteen of the area river and creek forecast points exceeded flood stage.
Read the full account →A frontal system moved east from the Ohio Valley and spread a steady rain across western New York. Rainfall totals of three to four inches resulted in not only flooding on major rivers but road flooding was reported throughout Cattaraugus County.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a warm front. A severe thunderstorm over Chautauqua County produced winds that downed trees and power lines at the Chautauqua Institute and just east of Kennedy.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a warm front. A severe thunderstorm over Chautauqua County produced winds that downed trees and power lines at the Chautauqua Institute and just east of Kennedy.
Read the full account →A surface low as well as upper atmospheric energy traveled along a quasi-stationary boundary across northern New York during the afternoon of May 27th.
Read the full account →Strong afternoon thunderstorms dropped three to four inches of rain on a small portion of western Wyoming and northeast Cattaraugus counties. This resulted in flash flooding and rapid rises on Buffalo Creek.
Read the full account →Strong afternoon thunderstorms dropped three to four inches of rain on a small portion of western Wyoming and northeast Cattaraugus counties. This resulted in flash flooding and rapid rises on Buffalo Creek.
Read the full account →A weak mid-atmospheric disturbance moving across a stationary surface boundary within an unstable, tropical air mass led to numerous showers and thunderstorms with torrential, flooding rains across portions of northeast New York.
Read the full account →Nearly stationary showers and thunderstorms with torrential downpours, resulted in flash flooding at the Village of Ilion during the evening of August 27.
Read the full account →Rainfall of one to 1.5 inches fell across the northern Adirondacks late on April 27 into the early morning hours of April 28. The region was had already experienced flooding from rain and snowmelt during prior days, and the additional rainfall renewed flood problems and created…
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 →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 →On July 3 thunderstorms broke out in warm unstable air ahead of a slow moving cold front. Some storms trained over southeast Franklin County and southwest Clinton County New York, producing two to 3 inches of rain in less than 3 hours.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms dropped between two- and two-and-a-half-inches of rain across parts of the Genesee valley and western southern tier.
Read the full account →A very moist air mass moved over the Mohawk Valley and Southern Catskills during the afternoon on July 14. A cold front stalled to the west of the region. This scenario allowed for a cluster of thunderstorms to develop.
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 →Torrential rain producing thunderstorms moved slowly through the Finger Lakes region to the Upper Mohawk Valley. Extreme rainfall rates produced rain amounts in excess of 2 inches within 45 to 90 minutes.
Read the full account →Clusters of thunderstorms moving through Central New York set up along a west to east corridor across the middle portion of Broome county. These storms produced incredible rainfall rates in excess of 4 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Warm temperatures melted the snowpack from record snowfall in late December and early January. Nearly two feet of ripe snowpack dissolved to just a few inches remaining.
Read the full account →Warm temperatures melted the snowpack from record snowfall in late December and early January. Nearly two feet of ripe snowpack dissolved to just a few inches remaining.
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