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WGUS71 KBOX 140013
FFSBOX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON/NORTON MA
813 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2025
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ESSEX MA-MIDDLESEX MA-
813 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2025
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN ESSEX AND NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES...
AT 813 PM EDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WEAKENING THUNDERSTORMS WHICH
WERE PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
BETWEEN 1.5 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN, WHICH HAS TRIGGERED
SIGNIFICANT BASEMENT FLOODING IN TOPSFIELD ACCORDING TO THE TOWN
FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE IS 0.25 TO 1 INCH IN 1
HOUR. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 1 INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED.
IMPACT...FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, 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...OBSERVED
EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...0.25-1 INCH IN 1 HOUR
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