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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Albany, NY

March 6, 2008Albany County, Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this river flood warning at Mar 6, 2008, 1:46 AM EST for Albany County, Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York. It took effect at Mar 6, 2008, 4:49 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 2008, 1:46 AM EST (06:46 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 6, 2008, 4:49 AM EST
Expired
Mar 6, 2008, 11:41 AM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Hudson River at Troy (TRYN6).

Action stage
21 ft
Minor stage
21.5 ft
Moderate stage
24 ft
Major stage
27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01358000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 6, 12:50 AM EST, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 12:50 AM EST, 56 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 2:53 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchALYFulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Warren25 hr
Mar 6, 3:17 PM ESTFlood WatchALYAlbany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer and 8 more61 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in New York, 2008Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.