3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An area of low pressure slowly moved across the region bringing rainfall amounts of up to two inches in some areas. The heavy rains produced localized flash floods which flooded some homes and roads.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure slowly moved across the region bringing rainfall amounts of up to two inches in some areas. The heavy rains produced localized flash floods which flooded some homes and roads.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system interacting with abundant tropical moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole dropped 3 to 6 inches of rain across central New York.
Read the full account →From January 8 to January 12, the Hudson River flooded from its headwaters to where it crosses into Greene and Columbia Counties, due to a combination of significant rain and snowmelt.
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 large area of rain showers and embedded thunderstorms brought heavy rains to areas of the Tug Hill Plateau during the late afternoon and evening hours of Sunday the 22nd. Volunteer observers reported rainfall totals of four to five inches.
Read the full account →An intensifying low pressure system, the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole, moved northward along the east coast Thursday, September 30th and Friday, October 1st, bringing very heavy rains to east central New York. Abundant tropical moisture was transported into the region.
Read the full account →From Friday morning November 8 to Saturday morning November 9, a slow moving low pressure system tracked from northern Pennsylvania to northern New York. This system dumped 4 inches of rain across much of Schoharie County between late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms developed along a stationary front across eastern New York during the afternoon of September 2. With a tropical air mass in place, the thunderstorms produced very heavy rain. One cell became briefly severe as it moved across Saratoga County.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary across eastern New York interacted with a strong upper level disturbance on July 15. The result was a slow-moving low pressure area that formed over Virginia.
Read the full account →A storm system tracked across New England with steady rainfall. The previous month was very wet so soil conditions remained saturated. Rivers and streams rose rapidly with many at or exceeding flood stage.
Read the full account →A low pressure system located over southern Ontario, along with surface boundaries in the vicinity of south central New York, resulted in severe thunderstorms during the late afternoon and evening hours.
Read the full account →A strong cold front crossed central New York bringing copious amounts of rain and high winds to the region. Rainfall amounts in excess of 5 inches fell in a narrow band across Sullivan county New York resulting in widespread flash flooding of small streams and tributaries in the…
Read the full account →A weak upper low pressure system drifted across a warm, moist and unstable airmass across northern New York during the early afternoon of the 28th.
Read the full account →Heavy rains and embedded thunderstorms dropped up to four inches of rain over parts of the region in just a few short hours. Flash flooding occurred in Allegany County where roads were flooded and closed in Cuba and Canadea.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms dropped torrential rains on parts of the Niagara Frontier and Western Southern Tier. As much as three inches of rain fell in a short time, flooding roads and viaducts in Depew, Lancaster, Kenmore and Olean.
Read the full account →A narrow band of rain persisted from Lake Ontario across Wayne and northern Cayuga counties and remained through early afternoon. Later that afternoon an isolated thunderstorm produced flash floods and wind damage in Warsaw, Wyoming county.
Read the full account →A narrow band of rain persisted from Lake Ontario across Wayne and northern Cayuga counties and remained through early afternoon. Later that afternoon an isolated thunderstorm produced flash floods and wind damage in Warsaw, Wyoming county.
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 →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 →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 general three to four inches of rain fell on bare, saturated ground across the Genesee basin. The Genesee river crested at 36.4 feet at Avon ( highest since 1972) and at 16.8 feet in Rochester (highest since 1984).
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance crossing the lower Great Lakes fueled thunderstorms across the region. In Wyoming county, thunderstorms produced hail one-inch in diameter. In Ontario county, thunderstorm winds downed trees and branches.
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.
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