
ALT The graphic was created by the NWS in Albany, NY for the 15th Anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene that occurred on August 28th 2011. Text includes, โIrene was the first tropical system to impact the entire Albany county warning and hydrological service areas since Floyd, September 16-17, 1999. 3 to 12 inches of rain fell August 27-29, 2011 with isolated 18 inches in the eastern Catskills. Devastating flash flooding occurred in the Schoharie Valley, eastern Catskills and southern Vermont due to wet antecedent conditions and intense hourly rainfall rates. In the Albany hydro service area, 13 river gauges had record floods.โ Pictures show the radar image when the heaviest rainfall was over eastern New York and western New England and the path that Hurricane then Tropical Storm Irene took. Several other pictures show flooding across eastern New York and the Schoharie Creek at Gilboa Dam new record for the flood stage (Major) at this site (1137.73 feet).








































