Full Notification

Urgent - immediate broadcast requested
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Albany NY
138 PM EST Tue Nov 26 2013

Northern Litchfield-Southern Litchfield-Northern Berkshire- Southern Berkshire-Eastern Rensselaer-Western Greene- Eastern Greene-Western Columbia-Eastern Columbia-Western Ulster- Eastern Ulster-Western dutchess-Eastern dutchess-Bennington- Western Windham-Eastern Windham- including the cities of...Torrington...Oakville...New Milford... Terryville...Pittsfield...North Adams...Great Barrington...Lee... Lenox...Housatonic...Hoosick Falls...Hunter...Tannersville... Windham...Catskill...Coxsackie...Athens...Cairo... Jefferson Heights...Hudson...Chatham...Sundown...Ellenville... Woodstock...West Hurley...Kerhonkson...Napanoch...Phoenicia... Kingston...New Paltz...Poughkeepsie...Beacon...Arlington... Pawling...Dover Plains...Millbrook...Pine Plains...Amenia... Millerton...Bennington...Jacksonville...Newfane...Brattleboro... West Brattleboro...Bellows Falls 138 PM EST Tue Nov 26 2013

...Flood Watch in effect from Midnight EST tonight through Wednesday afternoon...

The National Weather Service in Albany has issued a

* Flood Watch for portions of northwestern Connecticut...Western Massachusetts...East Central New York and Southern Vermont... Including the following areas...In northwestern Connecticut... Northern Litchfield and Southern Litchfield. In Western Massachusetts...Northern Berkshire and Southern Berkshire. In East Central New York...Eastern Columbia...Eastern dutchess... Eastern Greene...Eastern Rensselaer...Eastern Ulster...Western Columbia...Western dutchess...Western Greene and Western Ulster. In Southern Vermont...Bennington...Eastern Windham and Western Windham.

* From Midnight EST tonight through Wednesday afternoon

* Moderate to heavy rainfall will occur across the Flood Watch area Wednesday morning into the afternoon. Total rainfall amounts will Range from 1 to 3 inches with locally higher amounts of 4 inches of so in The Eastern catskills...Berkshires...And Litchfield County Connecticut.

* Urban and Poor drainage flooding is expected along with some flooding of smaller streams and creeks...Which May overflow their Banks.

* Main Stem Rivers will have some significant within bankfull rises...But a Few Stems May have some Minor flooding such as the hoosic River Basin.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

A Flood Watch Means there is a potential for flooding based on current forecasts.

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.