Name: Flood in New York, April 12 to 14, 2001
Start: 2001-04-12T22:45
End: 2001-04-14T20:00
Location: New York

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
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.

A combination of snowmelt, rainfall and local ice jams resulted in the Great Chazy River exceeding it's flood stage. High water with low land flooding was reported from Perry Mills to the Village of Champlain. The river gage at Perry Mills, NY exceeded it's flood stage during this time period.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 12, 10:00 PM EST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 10:00 PM EST, 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
1100 PM EDT THU APR 12 2001

UPDATED FCST SENT OUT...MAINLY TO LOWER POPS FOR OVRNGT PERIOD AND
TWEAK TEMPS/WNDS.

WARM AIR PUSHED INTO NRN NY THIS EVENING...WHILE LLVL COLD AIR HAS
REMAINED ENTRENCHED OVER ERN ZONES. AREA OF SHWRS/TSTRMS DVLPD OVR
NYS EARLIER THIS EVENING...AND MOVED RAPIDLY NEWRD. IT IS NOW EXITING
NE VT. RAINFALL AMTS HAVE BEEN RATHER LIGHT THOUGH DUE TO SHORT
DURATION. OCCLUDED FRONT MOVG INTO WRN PTN FA ATTM. SKIES MAINLY CLR
IN VCNTY OF FRONT HOWEVER...SO NOT EXPECTING MUCH IN WAY OF
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVRNGT. HAVE LOWERED POPS TO CHC AND GONE WITH
P/C OR V/C SKIES. MIN TEMPS WL BE CLOSE TO CURRENT READINGS. EXPECT
WINDS...WHICH HAVE BEEN LIGHT ALL EVENING IN MOST LOCATIONS...TO
INCREASE WITH PASSAGE OF OCCLUSION. HAVE INCLUDED MENTION OF SOME
FOG...MAINLY ERN VT.

HYDRO: RIVERS STILL ON THE RISE DUE THE ADDED RAINFALL OF TODAY
COMBINED WITH SNOWMELT. SNOWMELT WILL CONTINUE AS TEMPS REMAIN
ABOVE FRZFG. WL CONTINUE WITH FLOOD WATCH OVRNGT FOR ESSEX...
CLINTON...AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN NY. RIVERS IN WRN VERMONT SUCH AS
OTTER CREEK AND NEW HAVEN HAVE ALSO SHOWN SGFNT* RISES PAST 12 HRS.
THIS AREA WL ALSO NEED TO BE WATCHED AS LEVELS MAY APPROACH FLOOD
STAGE BY MORNING.

.BTV...FLOOD WATCH FOR CLINTON...ESSEX...FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN
       NORTHERN NEW YORK TONIGHT.

RJS

The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Northeast Clinton

When: April 12, 10:45 PM EST to April 14, 8:00 PM EST
Where: Northeast Clinton forecast zone
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 44.746, -73.678 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 5243769.