623 first-hand accounts of flood events in Vermont, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →A slow moving frontal boundary with several waves of low pressure moved across NY and VT during the afternoon of June 20th. Most of the activity was training showers with a few embedded thunderstorms that caused some localized flash flooding.
Read the full account →A very moist and unstable atmosphere remained over Vermont on June 13. This produced a second straight day of torrential rains from training thunderstorms in the Grafton area, which resulted in disastrous flash flooding.
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 late at night.
Read the full account →A storm system tracked across New England with periods of rain continuing. Soil conditions remained saturated with streams and rivers at or above flood stage. Many basements of houses were flooded, especially in Shelburne. Storm sewers were flooding in many localities.
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 →A storm system in the Ohio Valley on Saturday, December 16th tracked northeast across the St Lawrence Valley during Sunday, December 17th. Heavy rain (around 3 inches) and mild weather resulted in flooding across the county. Flooding in Barre was severe with roads closed.
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 band of showers and thunderstorms developed in an east-west oriented line in the late afternoon and overnight hours across northern Vermont from Chittenden County into Lamoille and Washington Counties.
Read the full account →A large area of low pressure brought warm air and excessive rainfall to Vermont. Rain began falling on February 24 and continued into the 25th, producing 2 to 2.5 inches of rain across the region.
Read the full account →A large area of low pressure brought warm air and excessive rainfall to Vermont. Rain began falling on February 24 and continued into the 25th, producing 2 to 2.5 inches of rain across the region.
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. Many rivers and streams rose rapidly with some exceeding flood stage.
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 →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 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 strong trough of low pressure moved across central New York into Vermont during the morning and early afternoon of August 6th. A very moist air mass and favorable steering winds accounted for training showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rain across portions of the…
Read the full account →A slow moving frontal boundary with several waves of low pressure moved across NY and VT during the afternoon of June 20th. Most of the activity was training showers with a few embedded thunderstorms that caused some localized flash flooding.
Read the full account →A strong storm system moved into the Great Lakes on Thursday (1/18/96) and then moved into Canada thereafter on Friday (1/19/96) and Saturday (1/20/96).
Read the full account →Thunderstorms resulted in torrential downpours in the Stowe and Moscow areas of Lamoille county in Vermont. Specifically, a spotter reported about 4 inches of rainfall in the Stowe area in about 1 hour between 430pm and 530pm EDT (330pm-430pm EST).
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall of 3 to 4 inches during the past 3-4 days had pre-saturated the soils across much of central Vermont. During the afternoon of July 1st, a series of heavy rain showers and thunderstorms moved across central VT delivering very heavy localized rainfall that caused…
Read the full account →A weak mid-atmospheric disturbance moving across a stationary surface boundary within an unstable, tropical air mass led to numerous showers and thunderstorms with torrential, flooding rains across portions of Vermont.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Irene moved across southeast New York and southwest New England during the morning hours of August 28th and then proceeded to track north along the Connecticut River Valley in Vermont during the afternoon and evening.||Strong to damaging winds in excess of 60 mph…
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.
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