623 first-hand accounts of flood events in Vermont, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A storm system moved from the Ohio Valley Sunday December 1, 1996 passing through the eastern Great Lakes Sunday night and into Canada on Monday December 2, 1996. Generally 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches of rain fell across Vermont.
Read the full account →A storm system moved across upstate New York and southern Canada during the day of July 24th. Steady rains resulted during the morning hours, with locally heavy rain associated with thunderstorms from mid morning to mid afternoon.
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. Soils remained very moist from previous heavy rainfall that began in late May and continued through early July.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure interacted with a very moist air mass across Vermont during the afternoon and evening of July 29th. Numerous showers and a few thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall fell across southern Vermont, especially in northwest Rutland county.||Numerous roads and…
Read the full account →A complex storm system began to evolve on Saturday December 16 across the Mississippi Valley. A surface low tracked north into the eastern Great Lakes by December 17.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary across extreme southern Vermont interacted with a strong upper level disturbance from July 15 into early July 16. The result was a slow-moving low pressure area which formed over Virginia.
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 →On the morning of the 26th...a deep upper atmospheric trough was located across the Mississippi River Valley, while a quasi-stationary warm front was across the Champlain Valley.
Read the full account →On September 30th, an area of low pressure moved north through the mid Atlantic states. Southerly flow ahead of the low tapped into deep tropical moisture, including moisture associated with the dissipated remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole.||Heavy rain spread into Vermont late…
Read the full account →On September 30th, an area of low pressure moved north through the mid Atlantic states. Southerly flow ahead of the low tapped into deep tropical moisture, including moisture associated with the dissipated remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole.||Heavy rain spread into Vermont late…
Read the full account →On June 15th, slow moving thunderstorms developed in the early afternoon over west central Vermont. These storms produced upwards of 2.5 inches of rain in a few hours, which led to localized minor street flooding (ponding) in Addison county, including near Cornwall along Route…
Read the full account →Low pressure and a warm front moved out of the central US and across the northeast on January 11 and 12. Temperatures rose above freezing late on January 10, and rose to near 50 degrees during the day Saturday. Three quarters to 1.5 inch of rain fell across Vermont on Saturday.
Read the full account →Low pressure and a warm front moved out of the central US and across the northeast on January 11 and 12. Temperatures rose above freezing late on January 10, and rose to near 50 degrees during the day Saturday. Three quarters to 1.5 inch of rain fell across Vermont on Saturday.
Read the full account →A warm front across southern New England helped trigger thunderstorms in a very humid airmass. Weak upper level winds resulted in slow moving thunderstorms with torrential rainfall during the early morning hours.
Read the full account →A storm system moved from the Ohio Valley Sunday December 1, 1996 passing through the eastern Great Lakes Sunday night and into Canada on Monday December 2, 1996. Generally 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches of rain fell across Vermont.
Read the full account →A storm system moved from the Ohio Valley Sunday December 1, 1996 passing through the eastern Great Lakes Sunday night and into Canada on Monday December 2, 1996. Generally 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches of rain fell across Vermont.
Read the full account →A storm system moved from the Ohio Valley Sunday December 1, 1996 passing through the eastern Great Lakes Sunday night and into Canada on Monday December 2, 1996. Generally 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches of rain fell across Vermont.
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 storm system in the Ohio Valley on Saturday, December 16th tracked northeast across the St Lawrence Valley during Sunday, December 17th. Heavy rain (around 2 inches) and mild weather resulted in flooding across the county.
Read the full account →A complex storm system began to evolve on Saturday December 16 across the Mississippi Valley. A surface low tracked north into the eastern Great Lakes by December 17.
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. Thunderstorms during the early morning hours of August 12th resulted in torrential downpours with rises on the Lamoille River.
Read the full account →On March 6th, a slow moving north-south oriented cold front, laden with copious amounts of moisture, entered western Vermont by late morning, central Vermont around midday and eastern Vermont by late afternoon.
Read the full account →A warm and very humid airmass was in place across Vermont. Thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a cold front as it moved southeast across northern Vermont during the afternoon. Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall impacted the towns of Williston, Essex and Essex jct.
Read the full account →A storm system over Pennsylvania on Sunday, October 20, 1996 drifted northeast...moving across New England Monday night, October 21, 1996. A fetch of moist air off the Atlantic resulting in bands of heavy rain across Northern and Eastern Vermont.
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