623 first-hand accounts of flood events in Vermont, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A surface low as well as upper atmospheric energy traveled along a quasi-stationary boundary across northern New York and Vermont during the afternoon and evening of May 26th.
Read the full account →Warm temperatures the last week of February started snow melt, and 1/2 to 1 inch of rainfall ahead of a cold front on Saturday 2/25 caused significant river rises and ice break up. Ice jam flooding closed roads, and river flooding had minor impacts.
Read the full account →Warm temperatures the last week of February started snow melt, and 1/2 to 1 inch of rainfall ahead of a cold front on Saturday 2/25 caused significant river rises and ice break up. Ice jam flooding closed roads, and river flooding had minor impacts.
Read the full account →Record Flooding occurred along the shores of Lake Champlain from mid-April to mid-June. NWS Flood Stages for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gages on Lake Champlain at the ECHO Center in Burlington, VT and Rouses Point, NY are 100.0 feet and were surpassed on April…
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 region the night of July 3, 1996 and during the day of July 4th.A woman…
Read the full account →An area of low pressure tracked across New York and New England during the late night of Friday (June 26) and morning of Saturday (June 27). Heavy convective rains fell with 4 to 8 inches across northern portions of the county with extensive flooding.
Read the full account →A weak surface low developed along a slow moving cold front across the Champlain Valley of Vermont during the late afternoon and evening hours of June 14th.
Read the full account →A cold front moves across a marginally unstable air mass during the afternoon of June 28th developing thunderstorms in the Adirondacks of New York that eventually moved into the Champlain Valley and elsewhere in Vermont.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective system brought scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms that focused across portions of central and eastern Vermont during the morning hours of July 14th. Rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches with locally higher amounts were reported.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective system brought scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms that focused across portions of central and eastern Vermont during the morning hours of July 14th. Rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches with locally higher amounts were reported.
Read the full account →A cold front moving into Vermont from southern Canada triggered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. The thunderstorms in Addison county were accompanied by torrential rainfall from late afternoon into the early night with 2 to 5 inches of rainfall falling on already saturated…
Read the full account →On the afternoon of May 27th, one thunderstorm developed near Essex, New York and proceeded to intensify as it moved southeast across a small corridor in Addison and Rutland counties.
Read the full account →Snowmelt from an above normal snowpack and daytime high temperatures in the 50s and 60s on the 25th and 26th, combined with rainfall of a half to one inch early on the 26th to set the stage for a significant flood event across the region.
Read the full account →A surface low as well as upper atmospheric energy traveled along a quasi-stationary boundary across northern New York and Vermont during the afternoon and evening of May 26th.
Read the full account →Snowmelt from an above normal snowpack and daytime high temperatures in the 50s and 60s on the 25th and 26th, combined with rainfall of a half to one inch early on the 26th to set the stage for a significant flood event across the region.
Read the full account →Snowmelt from an above normal snowpack and daytime high temperatures in the 50s and 60s on the 25th and 26th, combined with rainfall of a half to one inch early on the 26th to set the stage for a significant flood event across the region.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of July 11th...a warm and very moist airmass was draped across Vermont. In addition, a slow moving cold front entered Vermont from west to east during the afternoon.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across the region during the late afternoon and night of August 11th into the early morning of August 12th. With a warm humid airmass in place, thunderstorms resulted in torrential downpours during the night.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall from training showers and thunderstorms produced flash flooding across Chittenden and Lamoille Counties in Vermont beginning in the afternoon and evening of May 23.
Read the full account →A surface low as well as upper atmospheric energy traveled along a quasi-stationary boundary across northern New York and Vermont during the afternoon and evening of May 26th.
Read the full account →A cold front tracked east across southern Vermont during the afternoon hours of Monday, June 19th, 2017. With a warm and unstable air mass in place, the frontal passage sparked numerous showers and thunderstorms across the area.
Read the full account →A cold front tracked east across southern Vermont during the afternoon hours of Monday, June 19th, 2017. With a warm and unstable air mass in place, the frontal passage sparked numerous showers and thunderstorms across the area.
Read the full account →Snowmelt from an above normal snowpack and daytime high temperatures in the 50s and 60s on the 25th and 26th, combined with rainfall of a half to one inch early on the 26th to set the stage for a significant flood event across the region.
Read the full account →Snowmelt from a late season snowpack combined with heavy rain produced widespread flooding across northern and central Vermont. Four to six inches of water was released from the snowpack over April 10 to 15 when daytime highs reached the 60s and 70s, and overnight lows remained…
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