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River Flood Warning 19, NWS Albany, NY

April 15, 2019Albany County, Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this river flood warning at Apr 15, 2019, 9:38 PM EDT for Albany County, Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, New York. It took effect at Apr 16, 2019, 1:03 AM EDT. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 2019, 9:38 PM EDT (01:38 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 16, 2019, 1:03 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 16, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
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 01:37 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). The gauge peaked at 21.51 ft at Apr 16, 2019, 3:00 AM EDT.

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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 Apr 15, 7:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 7:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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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.