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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Albany, NY

June 12, 2013Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this river flood warning at Jun 12, 2013, 7:53 AM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2013, 7:53 AM EDT (11:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2013, 3:26 PM EDT
In force
32 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:51 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 Housatonic River at Stevenson (STVC3). The gauge peaked at 13.47 ft at Jun 14, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT.

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Action stage
8 ft
Minor stage
11 ft
Moderate stage
15 ft
Major stage
20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01205500, 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 Jun 12, 6:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 10:16 AM EDTFlood WatchALYAlbany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer and 6 more47 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 2013Every river flood warning in 2013

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.