Flash Flood, Essex
- When
- June 25, 11:25 PM EST to June 26, 1:00 AM EST
- Where
- Essex County, Port Douglass
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 44.117, -73.773 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in New York, June 25 to 26, 1998
An area of weak low pressure over New England and New York combined with a moist unstable airmass resulted in evening and late night thunderstorms Thursday (June 25th) into early Friday (June 26th) with locally torrential downpours. Specifically, in and around Port Douglas, NY roads and railroad track were washed out.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
An area of weak low pressure over New England and New York combined with a moist unstable airmass resulted in evening and late night thunderstorms Thursday (June 25th) into early Friday (June 26th) with locally torrential downpours. Specifically, in and around Port Douglas, NY roads and railroad track were washed out. During the late night hours, a train engine and 5 train cars derailed with extensive damage.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 25 to 26, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
- Heat in New Jersey, June 25 to 26, 1998
- Heat in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
- Heat in Delaware, June 25 to 26, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 25, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, June 25, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, June 25, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
- Hail in Idaho, June 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 25, 1998
More
Every storm in New York in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, June 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5669158.