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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

255 PM EDT TUE SEP 25 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT IN NORTHEASTERN WORCESTER 

AND NORTHWESTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES IN MASSACHUSETTS UNTIL 4 PM...



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY NEW 

HAMPSHIRE UNTIL 415 PM...



...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM WEDNESDAY 

MORNING FOR MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...



TROPICAL MOISTURE AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING FRONT HAS PROMPTED LOCALLY 

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL.  IN FITCHBURG...OVER 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL 

OCCURRED IN 3 HOURS. PORTIONS OF ROUTE 2 WERE REPORTED FLOODED IN 

THE FITCHBURG AREA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. IN SOUTH CENTRAL 

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY...A SPOTTER REPORTED FLOODING ALONG ROUTE 101.  

FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED ALONG A PORTION OF ROUTE 2A IN LUNENBURG.



AT 255 PM...THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING FROM THE BOSTON 

AREA THROUGH THE NORTH SHORE...WHERE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 

INCHES IN 2 HOURS ARE POSSIBLE. SOME LOCATIONS WILL EXPERIENCE URBAN 

FLOODING IN THIS AREA. 



RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS 

THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. 



A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FLASH

FLOODING ALONG RIVERS AND STREAMS. KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO THE

RIVERS AND STREAMS IN YOUR AREA. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A FLOOD PRONE

STREAM...PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LATER FORECASTS AND BE READY TO ACT

QUICKLY SHOULD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.



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