3,560 first-hand accounts of flood events in New York, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A cold front moved across northern New York Tuesday (4/23/96). Thunderstorms with locally heavy rain and gusty winds moved across the area during Tuesday afternoon and night. Locally heavy rain resulted in plugged culverts in Essex County NY with field flooding.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure over the Mid-Atlantic states on Wednesday July 3, 1996 moved north across New England during Thursday July 4, 1996. Periods of heavy rain...enhanced by thunderstorms...moved across the area the night of July 3 and during July 4th.Generally between 1.5 and…
Read the full account →From January 8 to January 10, the Hoosic River in northern Rensselaer and southern Washington Counties flooded, due to a combination of significant rain and snowmelt. The river crested approximately one foot over flood stage at Eagle Bridge during the morning of January 9.
Read the full account →Low pressure off the Mid-Atlantic coast produced 3 to 7 inches of rain across the Catskill Mountains in Greene County. The rain fell on fairly wet ground and forced the Esopus Creek to spill out of its banks both above and below the Ashokan Reservoir.
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 strong upper level disturbance and a surface front, combined to produce numerous thunderstorms across eastern New York during the morning hours of June 3. A few of thunderstorms became severe as they worked across the Mid Hudson Valley and east into the Taconics.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary stalled across portions of New York and New England and helped to focus heavy rainfall across this area. Convective precipitation moved from northwest to southeast across the area from Canada.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary stalled across portions of New York and New England and helped to focus heavy rainfall across this area. Convective precipitation moved from northwest to southeast across the area from Canada.
Read the full account →The first week of March was mild starting the "spring" thaw across central New York and northeast Pennsylvania. Snow melt combined with some rain causing minor flooding along the Upper North Branch of the Susquehanna and the Tioughnioga and Chenango Rivers.
Read the full account →The first week of March was mild starting the "spring" thaw across central New York and northeast Pennsylvania. Snow melt combined with some rain causing minor flooding along the Upper North Branch of the Susquehanna and the Tioughnioga and Chenango Rivers.
Read the full account →The first week of March was mild starting the "spring" thaw across central New York and northeast Pennsylvania. Snow melt combined with some rain causing minor flooding along the Upper North Branch of the Susquehanna and the Tioughnioga and Chenango Rivers.
Read the full account →The first week of March was mild starting the "spring" thaw across central New York and northeast Pennsylvania. Snow melt combined with some rain causing minor flooding along the Upper North Branch of the Susquehanna and the Tioughnioga and Chenango Rivers.
Read the full account →A strong Atlantic coast storm brought heavy rain with amounts between 1 and 3 inches on the 28th. In addition, snowmelt was causing elevated river flows before the rain started late on the 27th. Water equivalent of the snowmelt was a few more inches.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system moved slowly across southeast Ontario province into northern New York State. The associated surface low pressure system drifted across northern New York during the morning and northwest Vermont in the afternoon.
Read the full account →Minor flooding occurred at the Waverly/Sayre gauge on the Susquehanna River from heavy rainfall as an intense area of low pressure tracked from southern Indiana Tuesday morning on the 17th, to northeast of Lake Huron on the morning of the 18th and through eastern Canada…
Read the full account →Minor flooding occurred at Sherburne on the Chenango River from heavy rainfall as an intense area of low pressure tracked from southern Indiana Tuesday morning on the 17th, to northeast of Lake Huron on the morning of the 18th and through eastern Canada Wednesday afternoon and…
Read the full account →Minor flooding occurred at Bainbridge on the Susquehanna River from heavy rainfall as an intense area of low pressure tracked from southern Indiana Tuesday morning on the 17th, to northeast of Lake Huron on the morning of the 18th and through eastern Canada Wednesday afternoon…
Read the full account →Minor flooding occurred at Cook Falls on the Beaver Kill Creek from heavy rainfall as an intense area of low pressure tracked from southern Indiana Tuesday morning on the 17th, to northeast of Lake Huron on the morning of the 18th and through eastern Canada Wednesday afternoon…
Read the full account →Minor flooding occurred at Vestal on the Susquehanna River from heavy rainfall as an intense area of low pressure tracked from southern Indiana Tuesday morning on the 17th, to northeast of Lake Huron on the morning of the 18th and through eastern Canada Wednesday afternoon and…
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 →Rainfall of 0.50 to 1.00 inches occurred on the night of the 24th as low pressure tracked across central NY. In addition, mild temperatures remained over the region through the end of the month. The mild temperatures continued melting of snowpack.
Read the full account →A widespread rainfall occurred from March 15th to 16th as a slow-moving cold front dropped south from Canada and crossed upstate New York from the evening of the 14th to the morning of the 15th.
Read the full account →A widespread rainfall occurred from March 15th to 16th as a slow-moving cold front dropped south from Canada and crossed upstate New York from the evening of the 14th to the morning of the 15th.
Read the full account →A widespread rainfall occurred from March 15th to 16th as a slow-moving cold front dropped south from Canada and crossed upstate New York from the evening of the 14th to the morning of the 15th.
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