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WGUS71 KBOX 281955

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

355 PM EDT SUN SEP 28 2003



...RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH THROUGH THIS EVENING IN THE CONNECTICUT 

RIVER VALLEY...



FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM FOR HARTFORD 

COUNTY CONNECTICUT...AND FOR HAMPDEN...HAMPSHIRE AND FRANKLIN 

COUNTIES IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.



THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS ENDED IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY...BUT 

ANOTHER ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED BEFORE THE 

SHOWERS END THIS EVENING.  FLOOD WATERS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE THIS 

EVENING.



AS OF 345 PM...MANY COMMUNITIES NEAR THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FROM 

WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INTO NORTHERN CONNECTICUT REPORTED SIGNIFICANT 

URBAN FLOODING...WITH SEVERAL FEET OF WATER ON SOME ROADWAYS AND 

SOME VEHICLES STRANDED BY FLOOD WATERS.



SEVERAL SMALLER RIVERS AND STREAMS WERE ALSO OUT OF THEIR BANKS.

IN HADLEY MASSACHUSETTS...FORT RIVER AND RUSSELL BROOK WERE FLOODING 

NEARBY FARMLAND.  IN NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT...WILLOW BROOK WAS OUT 

OF ITS BANKS AND WAS FLOODING WILLOW BROOK PARK.



NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES OR ROADS WHERE WATER COVERS THE 

ROADWAY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OR TWO OF WATER TO WASH MOST CARS AWAY.



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JWD

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