3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A front from southern New England to near Washington D.C Sunday morning the 25th moved slowly west, to a position from just north of New England, south-southwest across the Adirondacks through central New York and then down the spine of the Appalachians by Monday morning the…
Read the full account →Tropical moisture continued to stream northward into upstate New York ahead of a frontal system which slowly moved westward into the eastern Great Lakes by Tuesday morning the 27th.
Read the full account →A strong upper atmospheric ridge was located across the Great Lakes, accounting for a west-northwest upper level wind flow with several disturbances that moved within this flow across northern New York during the early morning hours of the 1st.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →A cold front located over the Great Lakes approached the region from the west late Monday, July 9th. A prefrontal trough well ahead of this front, in conjunction with a lake breeze boundary, and a hot, humid and unstable air mass in place, led to the rapid development of…
Read the full account →A developing low pressure system along a nearly stationary boundary intensified as it tracked northeast from western Pennsylvania into central New York from Wednesday morning on July 23rd, through Thursday morning on July 24th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms preceded and accompanied a cold front moving across the region during the late morning and afternoon hours. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. Damage was reported in Silver Creek, Busti, and Hanover.
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. 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. Damage reports were fairly widespread across the area with downed power lines, limbs and trees.
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 →A strong storm system moved into the Great Lakes Thursday (1/18/96) then into Canada Friday (1/19/96). The associated circulation pattern with this storm system resulted in above normal temperatures, strong winds and flooding due to snow melt, rainfall and icejams.A number of…
Read the full account →A strong storm system moved into the Great Lakes Thursday (1/18/96) then into Canada Friday (1/19/96). The associated circulation pattern with this storm system resulted in above normal temperatures, strong winds and flooding due to snow melt, rainfall and icejams.A number of…
Read the full account →From January 8 to January 11, the Mohawk River flooded from the eastern Mohawk Valley to where the river flows into the Hudson River. The river crested 1.5 feet above flood stage at Little Falls in southern Herkimer County, 1.6 feet above flood stage at Schenectady and .4 feet…
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 →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 →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 →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 →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.
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