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The total also set a new record for a single-day rainfall anywhere in New York State. The previous record was 11.60 inches, set in upstate Tannersville during Hurricane Irene in 2011.
Earlier in the evening, the total had stood at 13.27 inches, but 0.3 more inches fell when another cell passed through Islip in the evening, Quinn reported.
It would be the equivalent of 11 feet of snow falling in one 24-hour period, Quinn reported.
From Tuesday evening until Wednesday morning, Islip got more than 13 inches of rain, more than the normal total for June, July and August of 11.75 inches, said Joe Pollina of the National Weather Service.
The rainfall totals in Islip increased steadily throughout the overnight hours. The rainfall totaled 0.02 inches by midnight, 0.05 inches by 1 a.m., 0.18 inches by 2 a.m., 0.53 inches by 3 a.m., 1.07 inches by 4 a.m., and 1.9 inches by 5 a.m.
But between 5 and 6 a.m. alone – in a space only 7 miles wide – more than 5 inches of rain fell to bring the total to 7.25 inches. Such rainfall in so little time is virtually unheard of outside of a tropical storm, Quinn reported.
Between 6 and 7 a.m., another 4 inches fell, bringing the total to 11.62 inches. The final total of 13.27 inches was reached by midmorning.
Rainfall totals by hour in Islip, Long Island, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (Credit: CBS 2)
The disastrous storm was also isolated to a narrow area. From midnight Wednesday morning forward, Central Park saw only 0.59 inches of rain; Montauk saw a mere 0.15 inches; Poughkeepsie saw 1.28 inches; Bridgeport, Connecticut saw 1.69 inches; and Belmar, New Jersey saw 2.69 inches.
The storm left multiple communities flooded and left motorists stranded on 11 major highways.
A state of emergency was declared with Suffolk County, where county Executive Steve Bellone called the weather Wednesday morning a “storm of historic proportions.”
“It was unprecedented and unpredicted — the size, the extent, the scale,” Bellone said at a news conference Wednesday, also remarking that “this could be a 500-year storm we just witnessed.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said resources have been deployed to Long Island to help with the flooding and said the state’s Emergency Oper