623 first-hand accounts of flood events in Vermont, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 →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…
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…
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 3 to 6 inches across the county. Extensive flooding occurred, especially along the Mad River.
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 3 to 6 inches across the county.
Read the full account →Following a heavy snowfall event on January 19-20 over southern Vermont, a strong low pressure system tracking through southern Canada ushered in an unseasonably warm and moist airmass on January 24th. Temperatures surged into the 40s to mid-50s.
Read the full account →The combination of a strong stationary front with temperatures in the 50s/60s across Quebec and NC-NE VT and 80s across central New York, along with strong moisture lifting over the boundary accounted for training showers and a few thunderstorms with heavy rainfall across north…
Read the full account →A cold front passed through the region on May 16, 2022. This triggered several rounds of thunderstorms in the Proctor, VT area, producing between 2 and 3 inches of rainfall.
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 →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 →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…
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 nearly stationary thunderstorm, which contained some back-building elements traversed portions of eastern Addison County on the evening of August 26, 2021.
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 →Flash flooding from heavy rainfall occurred along the western slopes of the Green Mountains in northwest Vermont. A cold front was stalled across the Adirondacks and central Vermont, and several waves moving along the front produced repeated periods of heavy rain.
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 →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 →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 →Flash flooding from heavy rainfall occurred along the western slopes of the Green Mountains in northwest Vermont. A cold front was stalled across the Adirondacks and central Vermont, and several waves moving along the front produced repeated periods of heavy rain.
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 →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…
Read the full account →A warm front moved across Vermont during the morning hours of May 29th, which lead to numerous thunderstorms with heavy rain, damaging lightning and some isolated large hail and strong winds.
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.
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