2,771 first-hand accounts of flood events in Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A prolonged heavy rainfall event with slow-moving boundary produced significant small stream and subsequent river flooding in the mountains of southwest VA beginning overnight Sunday, April 19th.
Read the full account →Several large rivers including the Dan and lower Roanoke rivers crested in the first few days of the month in response to the heavy rains that fell the last few days of September into October.
Read the full account →Several large rivers including the Dan and lower Roanoke rivers crested in the first few days of the month in response to the heavy rains that fell the last few days of September into October.
Read the full account →Several large rivers including the Dan and lower Roanoke rivers crested in the first few days of the month in response to the heavy rains that fell the last few days of September into October.
Read the full account →A wet period began early on the 4th as a complex series of disturbances lifted northeast through the Ohio Valley pushing a slow-moving cold front across the area.
Read the full account →An unseasonably strong cold front passed across the central Appalachians during the evening of June 27th. Storm intensity increased east of a lee surface trough across the Piedmont of North Carolinas into Virginia.
Read the full account →A very wet pattern developed in the days leading up to and through Christmas beginning around the 21st. A deep southerly flow between a trough over the western U.S.
Read the full account →A very wet pattern developed in the days leading up to and through Christmas beginning around the 21st. A deep southerly flow between a trough over the western U.S.
Read the full account →One of the most high-impact flood/flash flooding episodes in recent years in the Blacksburg Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) developed over a several day period but culminated September 29th.
Read the full account →One of the most high-impact flood/flash flooding episodes in recent years in the Blacksburg Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) developed over a several day period but culminated September 29th.
Read the full account →One of the most high-impact flood/flash flooding episodes in recent years in the Blacksburg Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) developed over a several day period but culminated September 29th.
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