4/26/2024
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
Below normal streamflows expand in north
NYS Drought Map
Water news for Friday, April 26, 2024 1004 am EDT
Flows and Flood Tracker provisional data from the network of USGS streamflow monitors
Thirty-seven streamflow gauges record flooding in the USA Friday, up from thirty-three Thursday. WT tracks the nation's most common natural disaster dynamics through the states of New York, Ohio, Georgia and Louisiana. As of this report we are tracking 4 active floods monitored in the USGS network, all four in Louisiana.
The current streamflow map for NYS shows an even mix of normal and below normal flows statewide. Lake Ontario minor tributaries west section and Black Lake watershed have a significant number of much below normal streamflow values, lending the north Counties a place on the NYS drought map. St Lawrence River watershed has increased in area rated below normal Friday. Lake Champlain watershed remains below normal on the drought map as reported yesterday. NYS records no active flooding as of this report, the same station runs 99th percentile on Long Island, Swan River is high flow at East Patchogue.
Flooding continues on the same four USGS streamflow monitoring stations as reported here Thursday. Region 1 Bayou Dorcheat is up again overnight near Springhill. Bayou Bodcau is slowly declining near Shreveport, still running well above nine feet over flood stage heading into the weekend. In Region 4, Sabine River is down half a foot overnight, running a foot and a half out of the channel near Ruliff, TX. In Region 7, the east state border Pearl River has come down significantly overnight, running nine inches over flood stage at the Town of Pearl River.
Georgia's spring flooding has finally come to an end. As of around 5 pm yesterday, Satilla River tucked back inside the channel at Atkinson, ending Georgia's fifty straight days with flooding. Satilla River came within an inch of ending the flood in early April when another widespread rain event spiked another two weeks of flooding in the south. This time, flooding appears to have ended at all USGS monitored sites in Georgia. Once again, Atkinson was the last station to see the 2024 spring floodwater go.
Parts of north Ohio are just shaking off a freeze overnight. The NWS Freeze Advisory came off at 9 am this morning for Lake Erie drainage basin Counties. A handful of below normal rated flows are popping up in the Great Miami and Scioto River basins with the first below normal rating to show up on the Ohio drought map in many weeks. Little Muskingum River basin is rated below normal Friday from northeast Washington, through Noble and Monroe Counties. As of this report, there are no extreme high or low flows.
See black tags on the map for active flood, blue for high flow, 99th percentile or more.
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