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River Flood Warning 25, NWS Albany, NY

March 14, 2010Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this river flood warning at Mar 14, 2010, 1:23 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Mar 14, 2010, 4:40 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2010, 1:23 PM EDT (17:23 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2010, 4:40 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 18, 2010, 2:38 AM EDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity: Minor

County Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Housatonic River at Falls Village (FLVC3). The gauge peaked at 7.50 ft at Mar 16, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01199000, 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 13, 6:45 PM EST, 17 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 6:45 PM EST, 17 hours 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 3:28 PM EST, 20 hours 55 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
Mar 13, 10:18 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	5 hr
Mar 13, 11:01 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	6 hr
Mar 14, 6:02 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Ulster	3 hr
Mar 14, 11:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Ulster	24 hr
Mar 13, 9:09 PM EST	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	42 hr
Mar 13, 9:09 PM EST	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region	47 hr
Mar 13, 9:48 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	10 hr

Nearby

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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.