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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

729 PM EDT THU MAY 10 2007



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FRANKLIN MA-

729 PM EDT THU MAY 10 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR

NORTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...



AT 725 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO

INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.  THIS STORM WAS

LOCATED NEAR ROWE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF NORTH ADAMS...MOVING

NORTH AT 5 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR IS INDICATING RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND

2 INCHES PER HOUR IN THE WARNED AREA AND A 3 HOUR TOTAL OF BETWEEN 3

5 INCHES. 



FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED 

DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED 

BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A 

FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING 

WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.



IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO 

STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. 

CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OF CREEKS.



LAT...LON 4274 7299 4273 7278 4265 7291 4264 7294

      4267 7298



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