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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Albany, NY

May 17, 2009Herkimer County, Oneida County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this river flood warning at May 17, 2009, 11:31 AM EDT for Herkimer County, Oneida County, New York. It took effect at May 17, 2009, 2:43 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2009, 11:31 AM EDT (15:31 UTC)
In effect from: May 17, 2009, 2:43 PM EDT
Expired: May 18, 2009, 8:11 AM EDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Herkimer County, NY, Oneida County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point West Canada Creek at Hinckley Dam (HIKN6).

Action stage: 1225 ft
Minor stage: 1227 ft
Moderate stage: 1228 ft
Major stage: 1230 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01343900, 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 May 16, 7:54 PM EDT, 15 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 7:54 PM EDT, 15 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 4:11 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer and 8 more	24 hr
May 17, 4:30 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Hamilton	5 hr
May 17, 6:09 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	ALY	Oneida	27 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in New York, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.