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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME

900 PM EDT SAT APR 13 2002



...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUES THE FLOOD WATCH FOR THE 

FOLLOWING MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE COUNTIES...

KENNEBEC...ANDROSCOGGIN...SULLIVAN...SOMERSET...FRANKLIN.. 

.OXFORD...COOS...GRAFTON AND CARROLL UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY.



RAIN COMBINED WITH SNOWMELT ARE CAUSING RIVERS TO SWELL IN NORTHERN 

NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE.   CONTINUED RAINFALL OVERNIGHT 

COULD RESULT IN SOME FLOODING DURING SUNDAY.



SOME OF THE LARGER NEW HAMPSHIRE RIVERS THAT COULD REACH THEIR FLOOD 

STAGE INCLUDE THE UPPER CONNECTICUT RIVER BETWEEN DALTON AND WEST 

LEBANON NEW HAMPSHIRE...AND THE PEMIGEWASSET RIVER.  IN MAINE THE 

ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER BETWEEN RUMFORD AND AUBURN...AND THE KENNEBEC 

RIVER NEAR SKOWHEGAN COULD EXPERIENCE SOME FLOODING.



BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING SHOULD BEGIN...OR 

IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPGRADES THE FLOOD WATCH TO A FLOOD 

WARNING.



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