3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
There was significant flash flooding including a building collapse and a water rescue in Canandaigua in the late afternoon as some estimates point to a 100 year flood event. A state of emergency was declared for Ontario county.
Read the full account →A slow moving front and a very moist airmass yielded slow moving thunderstorms that dumped heavy rain over southeast Wyoming county with portions of park roads and hiking trails flooded at Letchworth State Park.
Read the full account →A slow moving front and a very moist airmass yielded slow moving thunderstorms that dumped heavy rain over southeast Wyoming county with portions of park roads and hiking trails flooded at Letchworth State Park.
Read the full account →A slow moving front and a very moist airmass yielded slow moving thunderstorms that dumped heavy rain over southeast Wyoming county with portions of park roads and hiking trails flooded at Letchworth State Park.
Read the full account →A slow moving front and a very moist airmass yielded slow moving thunderstorms that dumped heavy rain over southeast Wyoming county with portions of park roads and hiking trails flooded at Letchworth State Park.
Read the full account →There was significant flash flooding including a building collapse and a water rescue in Canandaigua in the late afternoon as some estimates point to a 100 year flood event. A state of emergency was declared for Ontario county.
Read the full account →There was significant flash flooding including a building collapse and a water rescue in Canandaigua in the late afternoon as some estimates point to a 100 year flood event. A state of emergency was declared for Ontario county.
Read the full account →A slow moving front and a very moist airmass yielded slow moving thunderstorms that dumped heavy rain over southeast Wyoming county with portions of park roads and hiking trails flooded at Letchworth State Park.
Read the full account →There was significant flash flooding including a building collapse and a water rescue in Canandaigua in the late afternoon as some estimates point to a 100 year flood event. A state of emergency was declared for Ontario county.
Read the full account →A weak surface low tracked across western NY to the northeast of Lake Ontario from the afternoon to the late evening hours. Building instability and increased wind shear ahead of the low supported clusters of severe thunderstorms beginning late in the afternoon across the…
Read the full account →A weak surface low tracked across western NY to the northeast of Lake Ontario from the afternoon to the late evening hours. Building instability and increased wind shear ahead of the low supported clusters of severe thunderstorms beginning late in the afternoon across the…
Read the full account →A weak surface low tracked across western NY to the northeast of Lake Ontario from the afternoon to the late evening hours. Building instability and increased wind shear ahead of the low supported clusters of severe thunderstorms beginning late in the afternoon across the…
Read the full account →A stationary front near the area forced torrential thunderstorms in a tropical airmass resulting in widespread flash flooding in NY. The first round of thunderstorms occurred early in the morning on July 16th. Another round of thunderstorms occurred later in the afternoon.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary and low pressure system located to the west and east of eastern New York was the focus for rounds of showers and thunderstorms each day September 7-9. Strong to severe thunderstorms were more widespread on September 7-8.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary remained over the area which produced multiple rounds of torrential rainfall form heavy thunderstorms from July 9th through July 10th.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
Read the full account →An inverted trough extending from a low pressure system over the Western Atlantic provided a focus for persistent heavy convective rain to continually develop over the NYC metro and surrounding areas during much of the day on September 29th, 2023.
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