Flash Flood in New York, January 23 to 24, 1999

Name: Flash Flood in New York, January 23 to 24, 1999
Start: 1999-01-23T21:00
End: 1999-01-24T02:00
Location: New York

January 23 to 24, 1999 · NWS BGM · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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.

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Steuben

When: January 23, 9:00 PM EST to January 24, 2:00 AM EST
Where: Steuben County, Savona
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 42.268, -77.384 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The combination of locally heavy rainfall and ice jamming along a portion of the Cohocton River caused minor flooding from late in the evening on the 23rd into the early morning hours of the 24th. Water covered Savona-Campbell Road for a time, but no homes were threatened. Waters began to recede back within their banks well after midnight and Savona-Campbell Road was reopened.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in New York in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in New York, January 1999

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5684145.