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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME

630 AM EDT SUN APR 14 2002



...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY...

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.   RIVERS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE 

TODAY.



SOME OF THE LARGER RIVERS THAT COULD REACH THEIR FLOOD STAGE IN 

MAINE INCLUDE THE ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER BETWEEN RUMFORD AND 

AUBURN...AND THE KENNEBEC RIVER NEAR SKOWHEGAN.



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

IF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ISSUES A FLOOD WARNING FOR YOUR AREA.



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