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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

1023 PM EST SAT MAR 24 2001



...FLOODING OF SOME SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE 

OVERNIGHT... 



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

MANY SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS HAVE REMAINED IN FLOOD ACROSS PORTIONS

OF NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS AND FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE

THROUGH SUNDAY.  



THE SPICKET RIVER AT METHUEN CRESTED LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

THE 10PM STAGE THIS EVENING WAS 9.0 FEET.  THIS RIVER WILL REMAIN 

ABOVE ITS 7.5 FOOT FLOOD STAGE INTO SUNDAY. 



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

FOR THIS EVENT...8.9 FEET AND STILL RISING.  ITS APPEARS THAT IT 

WILL CREST AROUND SUNDAY MORNING...THEN BEGIN A SLOW RECESSION ON 

LATE SUNDAY BUT NOT LIKELY RETURN BACK BELOW ITS 7 FOOT FLOOD STAGE 

UNTIL 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... 

THE ABERJONA RIVER FLOOD STAGE AT 10PM WAS 12.8 FEET. THIS LEVEL

IS NOW BELOW FLOOD STAGE.  THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE 

TO RECEDE DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.



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...

THE THREAT OF RIVER AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING HAS ENDED.  



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

INFORMATION.



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