2,771 first-hand accounts of flood events in Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A prolonged period of light to occasionally moderate rain gradually saturated the ground during the first few days of May. Isolated heavier showers and thunderstorms developed across the central Shenandoah Valley, first during the overnight hours of the 7th and again during the…
Read the full account →Upslope winds on the east side of the Blue Ridge just north of an approaching warm front aided in producing torrential rainfall and catastrophic flooding in parts of Central Virginia. Rainfall amounts of 4-10 inches occurred north and west of Charlottesville.
Read the full account →Hurricane Florence made landfall on the far southeast North Carolina coast on September 14th and tracked very slowly across South Carolina before slowly re-curving across far western North Carolina and southwest Virginia as Tropical Depression and on into the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall and high winds moved through the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. during the evening of the 22nd. In Fairfax County, the intersection of Chain Bridge Road and Lee Highway was flooded in Fairfax.
Read the full account →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 →The synoptic pattern during the most of the first week of July was favorable for heavy precipitation as the Blacksburg Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) remained within a mean upper trough between two very strong ridges over the western U.S. and over the western Atlantic.
Read the full account →The synoptic pattern during the most of the first week of July was favorable for heavy precipitation as the Blacksburg Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) remained within a mean upper trough between two very strong ridges over the western U.S. and over the western Atlantic.
Read the full account →Abnormally moist atmosphere across the mid-Atlantic allowed showers and thunderstorms to produce exceptional rainfall rates across portions of northern Virginia|as the remnants of Tropical Depression Lee interacted with a nearly stationary boundary near the Mason-Dixon line.
Read the full account →Abnormally moist atmosphere across the mid-Atlantic allowed showers and thunderstorms to produce exceptional rainfall rates across portions of northern Virginia|as the remnants of Tropical Depression Lee interacted with a nearly stationary boundary near the Mason-Dixon line.
Read the full account →Abnormally moist atmosphere across the mid-Atlantic allowed showers and thunderstorms to produce exceptional rainfall rates across portions of northern Virginia|as the remnants of Tropical Depression Lee interacted with a nearly stationary boundary near the Mason-Dixon line.
Read the full account →The Remnants of Hurricane Jeanne resulted in heavy rains which created widespread flash flooding on 28th of September in Floyd, Franklin, Patrick, Bedford and Roanoke counties and the City of Salem.
Read the full account →Heavy rain over a long period of time caused small stream and urban flooding. A man who had been rescued once from the North Fork of the Roanoke River, returned to his truck with his father, and attempted to recover items from the truck.
Read the full account →Hurricane Isabel was a Category 1 hurricane as it crossed the Wakefield WFO county warning area. Sustained tropical storm force winds with frequent gusts to hurricane force occurred over interior southeast Virginia.
Read the full account →Hurricane Isabel was a Category 1 hurricane as it crossed the Wakefield WFO county warning area. Sustained tropical storm force winds with frequent gusts to hurricane force occurred over Eastern Virginia, along and near the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coastal Waters.
Read the full account →Hurricane Isabel was a Category 1 hurricane as it crossed the Wakefield WFO county warning area. Sustained tropical storm force winds with frequent gusts to hurricane force occurred over Eastern Virginia, along and near the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coastal Waters.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms dropped very heavy rain across the northern half of Virginia during the afternoon and evening of the 17th. In Shenandoah County, 2 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes in New Market.
Read the full account →The synoptic setup for this event featured an upper level ridge over the central U.S. with several strong short-waves topping the ridge and dropping southeast across the Ohio Valley toward the central Appalachians.
Read the full account →Hurricane Bonnie moved just offshore of southeast Virginia on August 27th and 28th. Very strong winds and heavy rains associated with Bonnie's spiral bands hammered the Hampton Roads area Thursday evening into Friday morning.
Read the full account →Heavy rain that began on the evening of July 12th fell through the overnight hours in the Whitewood area of Buchanan County. This resulted in significant flash flooding damage across the northern portions of the county, impacting numerous roadways and structures.
Read the full account →Light precipitation entered into southeast Virginia on the evening of February 14th, with more substantial rain spreading across the area overnight into the 15th as a warm front approached from the south.
Read the full account →Light precipitation entered into southeast Virginia on the evening of February 14th, with more substantial rain spreading across the area overnight into the 15th as a warm front approached from the south.
Read the full account →A moist and unstable air mass was in place from July 14 through July 15. This allowed for widespread, slow-moving storms to move across portions of central, southern, and southeastern Virginia. These storms produced heavy rain and widespread flash flooding in two rounds.
Read the full account →On September 18, 2003, Hurricane Isabel made landfall on the North Carolina Coast. Its huge wind field was already piling water up into the southern Chesapeake Bay. By the time Isabel moved into central Virginia, it had weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm.
Read the full account →Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a powerful Category 4 hurricane late Thursday, September 26, and moved quickly northward into the southeastern states, and then turned slightly northwestward towards the southern Appalachian Mountains overnight into Friday morning,…
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