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 storm system began to evolve on Saturday December 16 across the Mississippi Valley. A surface low tracked north into the Eastern Great Lakes by December 17.
Read the full account →A warmup at the end of Feburary, began melting the winter snowpack fairly quickly and helped break up an extensive ice pack on the upper Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. As a result, ice jams developed on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers.
Read the full account →A warm front extending through the Tri-State Area from a low pressure system moving across the northern Mid-Atlantic States acted as the focus for heavy rain and training thunderstorms in Queens and Nassau Counties.
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 slow moving storm from the Ohio Valley brought 2 to 3 inches of rain on April 2nd and 3rd. Before this storm, the Chemung River had high flows due to a previous rainstorm March 28th and snowmelt. By the time the river fell below flood stage most of the snow had melted.
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 →On June 12, a very moist and unstable atmosphere was situated over eastern New York. This resulted in scattered severe thunderstorms and flash flooding in northern Rensselaer County.
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 →On May 10, eastern New York was sandwiched between two frontal boundaries during much of the day. The air mass was very unstable which resulted in numerous single and multi-cell thunderstorms throughout much of the day.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure developed over the DelMarVa Peninsula by early on June 6. This storm tracked up the coast and became a full-blown nor'easter.
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 →Slow-moving thunderstorms erupted within a very tropical airmass over southern Saratoga county during the afternoon of August 2. Storms not only moved slowly, but redeveloped over the same region and produced very heavy amounts of rainfall in a short period of time.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms developed over the western southern tier and parts of the Finger Lakes region. Between 2.5 and 3.0 inches fell in less than four hours onto already saturated ground.
Read the full account →A complex storm system began to evolve on Saturday December 16 across the Mississippi Valley. A surface low tracked north into the Eastern Great Lakes by December 17.
Read the full account →For the third day in a row, scattered slow moving thunderstorms developed over the eastern Mohawk Valley of New York during the afternoon of August 5.
Read the full account →A tropical airmass remained entrenched over eastern New York on August 11. Once again, scattered slow moving thunderstorms developed in this airmass and produced flooding rains. A first batch of storms produced flooding in Greene and Columbia counties during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms erupted over Saratoga County during the afternoon of August of 10. The thunderstorms produced torrential rain, with up to five inches falling between Mechanicville, Stillwater and Clifton Park in about two hours time.
Read the full account →Showers with heavy rain trained across eastern Broome County into western Delaware County the evening of the June 13th. The showers started around 7 PM EST and continued for three hours. Radar rainfall estimates were 3 to 5 inches.
Read the full account →A tropical air mass remained in place over eastern New York on August 3. With a strong disturbance over the Great Lakes adding weak lift to a very unstable atmosphere, scattered slow moving showers and thunderstorms erupted during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →A tropical air mass remained in place over eastern New York on August 3. With a strong disturbance over the Great Lakes adding weak lift to a very unstable atmosphere, scattered slow moving showers and thunderstorms erupted during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →On the morning of March 4th, a huge raft of ice broke free on the Chenango River upstream from Chenango Bridge, a small community along the Chenango River in the Greater Binghamton area of New York.
Read the full account →State Route 96 in Owego closed due to flooding of the Owego Creek. Several other roads were closed in Tioga Center and Berkshire. Most roads were closed due to flooding with one road in Berkshire closed due to a mudslide.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a unseasonably hot and humid airmass during the late afternoon and early evening hours. The storms downed trees and power lines in Rochester, Lockport, Evans, Batavia, Orchard Park and Spencerport.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system moved through the Great Lakes on Monday, the 13th, and pulled a warm front north into central New York. Moist air streaming northward with this warm front brought showers with embedded heavier rains from thunderstorms to central NY.
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