623 first-hand accounts of flood events in Vermont, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A tropical air mass was in place over southern Vermont on August 3. With a strong disturbance over the Great Lakes adding weak lift to a very unstable atmosphere, scattered showers and thunderstorms erupted during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →A tropical air mass was in place over southern Vermont on August 3. With a strong disturbance over the Great Lakes adding weak lift to a very unstable atmosphere, scattered showers and thunderstorms erupted during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →A surface convergence boundary resulted in the development of and helped focus thunderstorms with very heavy rain over Windsor county. Specifically, intense rain fell across the southwest portion of the county. Near Weston, there were 2 reports of intense rainfall amounts.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure in southern Canada moved southward into Vermont on August 7th. This provided the focus for thunderstorms with heavy rainfall in a moist atmosphere during the afternoon and evening hours across central and southern Vermont.
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 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 surface trough in New York, associated with low pressure in Ontario Canada, lifted northeast across Vermont during the afternoon and evening of August 2nd.
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 powerful storm tracked northeast across Ontario and Quebec provinces on the 18th. Ahead of this storm, brisk south winds caused temperatures to rise into the 40s creating snow melt.
Read the full account →A vigorous, closed upper low across the Great Lakes on the 18th, delivered an occluded front into New York and Vermont during the evening of the 18th. A surface low developed off the coast of New Jersey and moved north along the frontal boundary across Vermont on the 19th.
Read the full account →A vigorous, closed upper low across the Great Lakes on the 18th, delivered an occluded front into New York and Vermont during the evening of the 18th. A surface low developed off the coast of New Jersey and moved north along the frontal boundary across Vermont on the 19th.
Read the full account →A vigorous, closed upper low across the Great Lakes on the 18th, delivered an occluded front into New York and Vermont during the evening of the 18th. A surface low developed off the coast of New Jersey and moved north along the frontal boundary across Vermont on the 19th.
Read the full account →A vigorous, closed upper low across the Great Lakes on the 18th, delivered an occluded front into New York and Vermont during the evening of the 18th. A surface low developed off the coast of New Jersey and moved north along the frontal boundary across Vermont on the 19th.
Read the full account →A warming trend started on the 12th, with daytime temperatures in the 40s, that eventually moderated into the 50s by the 14th and 15th. In addition, a quarter to half inch of rain fell along a stationary boundary on the 14th and 15th.
Read the full account →Low pressure off the Delmarva Peninsula on October 14th intensified rapidly into a strong Nor'easter as it moved across southeast Massachusetts into the Gulf of Maine on the 15th.
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 →Southerly deep layer flow in the atmosphere provided a feed for abundant tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to the northeast. Showers and thunderstorms developed on a daily basis in the summertime heat, and rainfall rates as high as two to three inches in an hour were…
Read the full account →Southerly deep layer flow in the atmosphere provided a feed for abundant tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to the northeast. Showers and thunderstorms developed on a daily basis in the summertime heat, and rainfall rates as high as two to three inches in an hour were…
Read the full account →An upper level low over the eastern Great Lakes and western New York and it's related surface low pressure system resulted in showers and thunderstorms across Vermont during the afternoon and night of Sunday July 16th.
Read the full account →A very moist air mass moved over extreme southern Vermont during the afternoon of July 14. A cold front stalled to the west of the region. This scenario along with terrain enhancement, resulted in a cluster of thunderstorms developing across this region.
Read the full account →A cold, unstable upper atmospheric disturbance and surface cold front moved across the Champlain Valley during the mid to late afternoon of August 10th. Several thunderstorms developed but only a few produced large hail or damaging winds.
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 →During April 13th and 14th, a slow moving cold front drifted southeast across the area. An area of low pressure moved along the front, passing across the region with widespread rainfall.
Read the full account →A powerful storm tracked northeast across Ontario and Quebec provinces on the 18th. Ahead of this storm, brisk south winds caused temperatures to rise into the 40s creating snow melt.
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