2,771 first-hand accounts of flood events in Virginia, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →A coastal low formed off of the Southeast coast on October 11 and slowly tracked north into October 13 before moving offshore. Meanwhile, a strong 1035mb area of high pressure lingered over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms during the late afternoon of the 19th through the early morning of the 20th, produced hail up to golfball size, damaging winds, and flash flooding.Heavy thunderstorm rains caused Whitley Branch to flood Route 730, 1.5 miles east of Staffordsville and Walker Creek…
Read the full account →As Hurricane Isabel weakened to a tropical storm, winds were sustained during the mid afternoon and early evening at up to 50 to 60 mph with gusts near 70 mph.
Read the full account →Widespread rain moved across the region on February 15 well ahead of an area of low pressure developing across the Mississippi Valley. Although temperatures were cool across central Virginia, elevated instability allowed bands of moderate to locally heavy rain trained over the…
Read the full account →Widespread rain moved across the region on February 15 well ahead of an area of low pressure developing across the Mississippi Valley. Although temperatures were cool across central Virginia, elevated instability allowed bands of moderate to locally heavy rain trained over the…
Read the full account →The influence of multiple weather features coinciding lead to an average of three to five inches of rain falling over the area. Low pressure moved from Georgia northeast along a cold front across the region while an upper disturbance approached from the Great Lakes region.
Read the full account →By 9 pm on September 18, a rain band associated with Isabel had set up over the Shenandoah Valley and showers were training southward into the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east side of Augusta County.
Read the full account →Very heavy rain from Hurricane Floyd produced widespread flooding and flash flooding across much of central and eastern Virginia, and northeast North Carolina.
Read the full account →As a result of the flooding on the 26th and the 29th, Dickenson and Buchanan Counties were added to the existing FEMA disaster declaration 1386. In Buchanan County, 5 single family homes were destroyed, 30 homes and 2 businesses had major damage.
Read the full account →A strong low pressure system off the North Carolina coast coupled with an upper level cutoff low to dump intense rainfall across portions of southeast Virginia.
Read the full account →A weak cold front settled over the Mid Atlantic between June 23 and June 27. Waves of low pressure rode northeast along the front. Flow in the atmosphere was parallel to the boundary, producing several rounds of persistent showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →A cold front slowly pushed across the area during the afternoon and evening and interacted with deep moisture from Hurricane Arthur tracking up the east coast. This triggered widespread thunderstorms activity with some high winds, hail and heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Heavy rains on the 18th and 19th caused moderate flooding along the New River.The New River at Galax crested 2 feet above flood stage at 8 pm on the 19th. At Radford, the river crested over five and a half feet above flood stage at 1215 am on the 20th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with heavy rains pushed across Roanoke county during rush hour causing flash flooding in parts of the City of Roanoke. Water flooded a hotel on Franklin street and two feet of water flowed over Franklin Street near Ore branch in Roanoke.
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