Request for various weather alerts and warnings in NSW between 19–21 May 2025

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The release covers Bureau of Meteorology correspondence and warnings for heavy rainfall and flooding on the NSW mid-north coast from roughly 18 to 22 May 2025. It includes internal emails from 20 and 21 May setting out priority flood monitoring catchments (Hastings, Manning, Macleay, Patterson-Williams, Hunter, Nambucca) and planned warning update frequencies, with major flooding reported at Kindee, Wauchope, Gloucester, Wingham, Taree and Kempsey, and an above-major peak forecast for Kempsey. Also included are an email thread on a data outage for the Manning River catchment, an NSW SES weather brief with rainfall records and outlooks to late May, a sequence of severe weather warnings issued from 18 May (forecast 24-hour totals of 70 to 200 mm), and a list of recorded rainfall totals of up to about 244 mm in 24 hours at sites including Moppy Lookout. Much of the text is redacted under sections 47C and 47F.