Watch this article for continuing severe weather coverage (scroll down for earlier coverage):
2:45 PM update: 862 Eversource customers without power in Mashpee, about 200 more in Falmouth.
Orleans Police/CWN
2:00 PM update: The NWS has issued a Severe Thunderstorm WATCH until 7 PM; The fire supression system at the Cumberland Farms at 119 Main Street in Orleans let go covering the area with the powdery substance. One person was evaluated. It was not immediately clear if the severe weather caused the discharge as there was no sign of fire.
Via Cape Cod Incidents/CWN
1:30 PM update: Traffic at the State Police Rotary in Bourne is at a standstill due to flooding by the MacArthur Boulevard entrance. About 350 Eversource customers without power in Dennis.
EXPIRED Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
107 PM EDT Mon Aug 26 2024
…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 130 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN BARNSTABLE AND SOUTHEASTERN PLYMOUTH COUNTIES…
At 107 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Bourne, or 10 miles north of Falmouth, moving southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE…Radar indicated.
IMPACT…Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted include…
Plymouth, Barnstable, Falmouth, Wareham, Sandwich, Bourne, and Mashpee.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature`s leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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Video of hail in South Dennis (Jane Sheehy Emplit):
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EXPIRED The National Weather Service in Boston/Norton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Southeastern Barnstable County in southeastern Massachusetts…
* Until 130 PM EDT.
* At 1239 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Dennis, or near Brewster, moving southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE…Radar indicated.
IMPACT…Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines.
* Locations impacted include…
Barnstable, Brewster, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, and Chatham.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature`s leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Noon update: Significant flooding is reported in Harwich. There are reports the parking lot at Red River Beach is flooding and people were taking shelter in the restroom building. Harwich firefighters report heavy smoke showing from a house on Seaport Lane apparently due to a lightning strike and confirm fire in the attic (coverage of several fires from lightning here). Doppler radar estimates over 2 inches of rain fell in the last hour in the Harwich Port area.
Flooding across Harwich:
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
1234 PM EDT Mon Aug 26 2024
…SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING MINOR FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE MID CAPE…
At 1230 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a thunderstorm with heavy rainfall over Dennis, or near Brewster, moving southeast at 10 mph. Additional thunderstorms had produced up to 1.5 inches of rain in the Harwich area.
HAZARD…Heavy rain capable of minor flooding. Flooding was reported in Barn Hill Rd in Chatham according to the Chatham fire department.
SOURCE…Radar and gauge indicated.
IMPACT…Ponding of water in poor drainage areas, and minor nuisance street flooding, especially on portions of Routes 6 and 28.
Locations impacted include…
Barnstable, Brewster, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, and Chatham.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
Do not drive through flooded roads or underpasses.
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CAPE COD – The Storms Prediction Center has placed much of Southern New England in a slight risk for severe weather (level 2 of 5) This area extends into upper Cape Cod.
CWN will be closely monitoring this developing weather situation.
