Flash Flood, Suffolk
- When
- August 1, 9:10 AM EST to 9:45 AM EST
- Where
- Suffolk County, Amagansett
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.941, -72.685 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in New York, August 1, 2000
Bands of torrential rain along with thunderstorms moved slowly north across the region. 5 inches per hour developed around 9 am EDT and by 10:10 am EDT, widespread flooding of low-lying and poor drainage areas was reported by police from Amagansett to Montauk Point.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
Bands of torrential rain along with thunderstorms moved slowly north across the region. Rainfall rates of around 1.5 inches per hour developed around 9 am EDT and by 10:10 am EDT, widespread flooding of low-lying and poor drainage areas was reported by police from Amagansett to Montauk Point. The NWS Cooperative Observer from Bridgehampton measured 2.02 inches. Heavy rain, with amounts generally under 2 inches, occurred along the Northern Twin Fork from east of Mattituck to Orient Point from around 9 am to 10 am EDT.
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:12 UTC.
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 Texas, August 1 to 31, 2000
- Wildfire in California, August 1 to 10, 2000
- Drought in Oklahoma, August 1 to 31, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 1 to 2, 2000
- Drought in Louisiana, August 1 to 31, 2000
- Heat in Kansas, August 1 to 31, 2000
- Wildfire in Montana, August 1 to 28, 2000
- Drought in Texas, August 1 to 31, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 1, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 1, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, August 1, 2000
- Drought in Texas, August 1 to 31, 2000
More
Every storm in New York in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, August 2000
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: 5169534.