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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON/NORTON MA
658 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.
* AT 658 PM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED REPEATED ROUNDS OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER,
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO 1
INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN. THE EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE IS 1 TO 2.5
INCHES IN 1 HOUR. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO AS MUCH AS 4
INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING
OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY AS STORMS MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR.
IMPACT...FLASH FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS, HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW-
LYING AREAS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
LOWELL, LAWRENCE, HAVERHILL, METHUEN, BILLERICA, CHELMSFORD,
ANDOVER, DRACUT, TEWKSBURY, NORTH ANDOVER, DANVERS, WILMINGTON,
NEWBURYPORT, AMESBURY, NORTH READING, IPSWICH, TYNGSBOROUGH,
MIDDLETON, GEORGETOWN AND BOXFORD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
LAT...LON 4274 7118 4279 7119 4281 7117 4282 7113
4281 7107 4284 7105 4284 7102 4283 7093
4280 7090 4276 7088 4262 7086 4260 7089
4259 7102 4261 7129 4265 7140 4270 7145
4270 7129 4274 7125
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...1-2.5 INCHES IN 1 HOUR
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