Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Great Neck, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bronx, NY, 7 miles northwest of Great Neck at 39 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 71°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 27°F. August is the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 50.1 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (26.0 of 50.1 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 49 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (22); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 4.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 23 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 67 nights a year. That 50.1 inches is more than at 123 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (90%). Manhasset, 2 miles east, has its own station (Mineola, NY): 45.4 inches a year, 4.7 less than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 2 miles northwest, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 2 miles from Great Neck, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 536 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Great Neck: 266 thunderstorm wind reports, 213 flash floods, 36 floods, 20 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 17 people and injured 45, and the NWS estimated $24.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 125 mph, on September 16, 2010. August has had the most flash floods, 58 of 213. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 756 have had fewer than Great Neck.

Flood insurance policyholders in Great Neck's 4 ZIP codes have filed 465 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $7.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ida in 2021: 58 claims (12% of all) and $2.9 million, then Not a named storm in 1979 with 35 and December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 28. 49% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 549 New York cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 489 have fewer than Great Neck.