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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

608 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006



MAC009-017-021-023-025-240045-

ESSEX MA-NORFOLK MA-PLYMOUTH MA-SUFFOLK MA-MIDDLESEX MA-

608 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR EASTERN

MIDDLESEX...SUFFOLK...NORTH CENTRAL PLYMOUTH...NORTHEASTERN NORFOLK

AND SOUTHWESTERN ESSEX COUNTIES...



AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

INDICATE A BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS 

FROM TOPSFIELD AND BEVERLY SOUTH AND WEST TO HINGHAM AND DEDHAM.  

THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. 



WHILE RAINFALL RATES HAVE DIMINISHED SOME IN THE PAST HOUR...RUNOFF 

FROM THE TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME 

LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING ON SMALL STREAMS...AS WELL AS MORE 

WIDESPREAD URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING THROUGH THE EVENING 

HOURS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH EASTERN 

WORCESTER COUNTY AND WILL MOVE OVER THE WARNING AREA DURING THE NEXT 

2 HOURS PRODUCING LOCALIZED HEAVY DOWNPOURS.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES

AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.  TRY TO AVOID 

FLOODED AREAS.  IF YOU DO HAVE TRAVEL PLANS THIS EVENING...YOU MAY 

WANT TO WAIT ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO BEFORE HEADING OUT.  THE HEAVY 

RAINS HAVE PRODUCED CONSIDERABLE FLOODING IN PORTIONS OF THE BOSTON 

METROPOLITAN AREA AS WELL AS ON SOME OF THE MAJOR ROADS AND HIGHWAYS 

FROM THE SOUTH SHORE NORTHWARD INTO SOUTHEAST ESSEX COUNTY. 



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