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River Flood Warning 50, NWS Albany, NY

March 24, 2010Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this river flood warning at Mar 24, 2010, 3:12 AM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Mar 24, 2010, 9:14 AM EDT. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 2010, 3:12 AM EDT (07:12 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 24, 2010, 9:14 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 25, 2010, 12:02 PM EDT
In force
27 hr
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 07:12 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 6.78 ft at Mar 24, 2010, 3:00 PM EDT.

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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 23, 7:30 PM EDT, 7 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 7:30 PM EDT, 7 hours 42 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 23, 4:14 PM EDT, 10 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
414 PM EDT TUE MAR 23 2010

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082>084-VTZ013>015-241100-
NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE-
SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-
SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA-NORTHERN WARREN-
NORTHERN WASHINGTON-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY-
EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY-EASTERN ALBANY-
WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER-WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-
WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA-WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-
WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS-NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN-
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM-
414 PM EDT TUE MAR 23 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN
CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND
SOUTHERN VERMONT.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

NO ADDITIONAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH NEAR 45 MPH FROM THE NORTHWEST
BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. IF LATER DATA
INDICATES THE WIND IS EXPECTED TO GUST ANY HIGHER...A WIND
ADVISORY WILL NEEDED FOR A PORTION OF OUR COUNTY WARNING AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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.