3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
On the afternoon of June 27th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front slowly tracking northeast across the western New York area.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of June 27th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front slowly tracking northeast across the western New York area.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of June 27th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front slowly tracking northeast across the western New York area.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of June 27th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front slowly tracking northeast across the western New York area.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of June 27th, strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a warm front slowly tracking northeast across the western New York area.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms moving across the county dropped between two-and-a-half and four-and-a-half inches of rain over southwest Niagara county in about a six hour period during the late afternoon and early evening hours.
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 →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 east-west line of showers and thunderstorms developed across Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties. The thunderstorms dropped nearly three inches of rain total however the intensity of the rain at times overwhelmed drainage systems.
Read the full account →A slow moving warm front pushed northward across central New York late in the afternoon on April 25th. A warm and relatively moist air mass covered the region, with showers and storms developing, especially in the unstable air south of the frontal boundary, where breaks in the…
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system moved from the eastern Great Lakes region across southern New York on the 22nd and 23rd, and interacted with very moist air across the portions of St. Lawrence and Franklin counties.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms slowly moved across the Finger Lakes region producing heavy rains. Reports of up to three inches of rain were received. Flash flooding occurred near Reed Corners on Route 63 at Parker Hill Road, near PreEmption on County Road near Route 6, and in Geneva on Route 14.
Read the full account →The passage of a strong upper level disturbance, combined with a moist and unstable air mass in place, led to the development of numerous thunderstorms across eastern New York State during Thursday afternoon on August 7th, some of which contained large hail.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front moving into a moisture rich environment over south central New York triggered several rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front moving into a moisture rich environment over south central New York triggered several rounds of heavy rain producing thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →On the evening of November 20th, a strong occluded front tracked northeast across most of the Buffalo County Warning Area. Behind this front, strong winds increased out of the southwest to 45 to 55 MPH, especially over Lake Erie and areas near the lake.
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 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.
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 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 →Thunderstorms rolled across the area during the evening and early overnight hours. The storms produced up to five inches of rain in some areas. Centerline, Maxon and Humphrey Roads in Wyoming County were closed because of damage and erosion of their shoulders.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms with…
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms quickly developed along lake breeze boundaries during the mid afternoon in a strong unstable environment. An isolated storm over Wayne County produced three-quarter inch hail in Newark.
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. Damage reports were fairly widespread across the area with downed power lines, limbs and trees.
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