Hello to all…
Please self-activate SKYWARN for rainfall totals, urban flooding enough to get cars stuck in roadways as well as rivers and streams near bankful or in flood. A Flood Warning has been issued until 2:30 PM Friday for all of Eastern
Massachusetts and RI except for Cape Cod and the Islands.
Below is the Flood Warning Statement:WGUS41 KBOX 011927
FLWBOX
MAC005-009-017-021-023-025-RIC001-003-005-007-009-020315-
BULLETIN – IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
225 PM EST THU APR 1 2004
…THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING…IN
EFFECT UNTIL 2:30 PM EST FRIDAY…
THIS FLOOD WARNING INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES…
IN MASSACHUSETTS
SUFFOLK…ESSEX…MIDDLESEX AND NORFOLK
IN RHODE ISLAND
WASHINGTON…BRISTOL…NEWPORT…KENT AND PROVIDENCE
IN MASSACHUSETTS
PLYMOUTH AND BRISTOL
A LARGE SLOW MOVING STORM SYSTEM OVER THE MID ATLANTIC WILL
CONTINUE TO SEND BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS RHODE ISLAND AND
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH MUCH OF TONIGHT. ONE TO OVER 3
INCHES HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES IS
EXPECTED BY FRIDAY MORNING.
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES ONE EXTENSIVE AREA OF HEAVY
RAIN AFFECTING THE LOWER MERRIMACK VALLEY. THIS WILL WORK
SLOWLY NORTHEAST THIS EVENING. ANOTHER EXPANDING AREA OF
HEAVY RAINFALL FORMING JUST OFFSHORE WILL LIFT NORTHWARD AND
AFFECT THE WARNING AREA TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN WIDESPREAD URBAN AND POOR
DRAINAGE FLOODING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE
COMBINATION OF RUNOFF FROM LAST NIGHTS RAINFALL AND THE
ADDITIONAL RAIN TONIGHT WILL RESULT IN MINOR FLOODING OF
SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. SOME OF THE
SLOWER RESPONDING RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL HAVE A MORE DELAYED
RESPONSE WITH MINOR FLOODING MATERIALIZING TOWARD DAYBREAK
FRIDAY.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE LOCATION BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
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. KNOW SOME ALTERNATE ROUTES BEFORE YOU START
TRAVELING IN CASE ROADS HAVE BEEN FLOODED AND CLOSED.
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DRV
73,Rob-KD1CY.
ARES SKYWARN Cooordinator for NWS Taunton