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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

934 AM EST SAT MAR 24 2001



...FLOODING OF SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TODAY IN 

NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS WHILE FLOODING HAS ENDED ACROSS NORTHERN 

RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS...



FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR 

ESSEX...MIDDLESEX AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS



RIVERS AND STREAMS WERE RECEDING WITHIN THEIR BANKS ACROSS NORTHERN 

RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS...AFTER PRODUCING MINOR TO 

MODERATE FLOODING OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS.  MEANWHILE...FLOODING 

CONTINUED ACROSS NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 

INTO SUNDAY IN SOME LOCATIONS.



...ESSEX - MIDDLESEX - SUFFOLK COUNTIES...

SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS REMAINED IN FLOOD ACROSS PORTIONS OF 

NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS AND FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE 

THROUGH THE DAY.  



THE SPICKET RIVER AT METHUEN WAS ABOUT STEADY NEAR ITS HIGHEST STAGE 

FOR THIS EVENING...9.05 FEET.  THIS RIVER WILL REMAIN ABOVE ITS 7.5 

FOOT FLOOD STAGE INTO SUNDAY. 



SIMILARLY...THE IPSWICH RIVER AT IPSWICH WAS AT AT ITS HIGHEST STAGE 

FOR THIS EVENT...8.5 FEET AND STILL RISING.  ITS APPEARS THAT IT 

WILL CREST NEAR 9 FEET TONIGHT...THEN BEGIN A SLOW RECESSION ON 

SUNDAY NOT LIKELY RETURNING BACK BELOW ITS 7 FOOT FLOOD STAGE UNTIL 

LATE SUNDAY OR EARLY MONDAY.  UPSTREAM...THE IPSWICH RIVER AT SOUTH 

MIDDLETON HAS CRESTED AND WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THROUGH SUNDAY.



OTHER SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS HAVE CRESTED AND WERE RECEDING... 

INCLUDING THE ABERJONA WHICH IS EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE 

BY EVENING.  THE ABERJONA ESTABLISHED A NEW RECORD ELEVATION FOR 

THIS EVENT...16.9 FEET WHICH SURPASSES THE DEVASTATING FLOOD OF 

OCTOBER 1996.



RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE 

ADVICE OF LOCAL OFFICIALS AND REMAIN OUT OF FLOODED AREAS.



...NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS...

RIVERS AND STREAMS HAVE RECEDED BACK WITHIN THEIR BANKS.  SOME LOCAL 

POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON BUT THE THREAT 

OF STREAM FLOODING HAS ENDED.  



THE PAWTUXET RIVER IN CRANSTON AT 9 AM HAD FALLEN TO 8 FEET.  THE 

RIVER CRESTED OVER 11.5 FEET LATE THURSDAY EVENING...OR 1.5 FEET 

ABOVE FLOOD STAGE.  THIS WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FLOOD EVENT SINCE 

APRIL OF 1984 WHEN THE RIVER AGAIN CRESTED NEAR 11.5 FEET.



THE TAUNTON AND WADING RIVERS WERE RECEDING AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO 

SO THIS WEEKEND.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATED 

INFORMATION.



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