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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY

1105 AM EDT SUN APR 8 2001



...A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH TONIGHT IN THE NORTHEASTERN 

CATSKILLS...THE MOHAWK VALLEY AND THE SOUTHWEST ADIRONDACKS.  



THE FOLLOWING NEW YORK COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED...



GREENE...SCHOHARIE...HERKIMER...SCHENECTADY...MONTGOMERY... 

HAMILTON...SARATOGA...FULTON AND ALBANY...



THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN OVERNIGHT IN PORTIONS OF 

THE WATCH AREA.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS CONCENTRATED IN AND JUST 

SOUTH OF THE IMMEDIATE MOHAWK VALLEY.  A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT 

ON THE MOHAWK RIVER.



FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED ALONG THE CANAJOHARIE CREEK WITH SOME 

FLOODING BETWEEN ROUTE 10 AND OLD SHARON ROAD.  THIS FLOODING SHOULD 

EASE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.



RAIN ENDED ACROSS THE FLOOD WATCH REGION BY MID MORNING.  A FEW MORE 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD REDEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON 

AND EVENING.



IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING...LISTEN FOR LATER 

STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.  DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED 

ROADWAYS.

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