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NWS: Flood Watch in Effect from 8 AM Sunday Through 8
PM Monday
Published: March 14, 2025 at
08:00 a.m.
By: Weather Alert
from the National Weather Service
Flood Watch
Flood Watch
National Weather
Service Buffalo NY
341 AM EDT Fri
Mar 14 2025
.Heavy rain may fall on
a deep primed snowpack leading to the melt
increasing. Flows
in rivers may increase quickly and reach critical
levels.
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Oswego-Jefferson-Lewis-
Including the
cities of Oswego, Watertown, and Lowville
341 AM EDT Fri
Mar 14 2025
...FLOOD WATCH IN
EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding
caused by rain and snowmelt is possible.
* WHERE...A
portion of central New York, including the following
counties, Jefferson, Lewis and Oswego. FLooding is most likely
along streams and rivers which drain the
Tug Hill Plateau and
western foothills of the Adirondacks.
* WHEN...From
Sunday morning through Monday evening.
*
IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and
flood-prone locations. If
flooding develops, the first impacts
would be along smaller
streams and in low lying areas Sunday and
Sunday night, with
larger rivers possibly rising to flood
stage Monday.
* ADDITIONAL
DETAILS...
- Periods of rain may produce 1.0 to 1.5
inches of rain Sunday
through Sunday night, with the greatest
rainfall amounts
likely overlapping areas with
significant snowpack across the
Tug Hill Plateau and western foothills
of the Adirondacks.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS
ACTIONS...
You should
monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those
living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
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