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Flood Watch
National Weather Service Taunton MA
338 PM EDT Tue Apr 4 2017
…ANOTHER SOAKING RAINFALL EXPECTED ON THURSDAY, BRINGING THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING…
…FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON…
The National Weather Service in Taunton has issued a
* Flood Watch for portions of northern Connecticut…Massachusetts and Rhode Island…including the following in …northern Connecticut…Hartford…Tolland and Windham.
In Massachusetts…Barnstable…Bristol…Dukes…Essex…Franklin…Hampden…Hampshire…
Middlesex…Nantucket…Norfolk…Plymouth…Suffolk and Worcester.
In Rhode Island…Block Island…Bristol…Kent…Newport…Providence and Washington.
* From Thursday morning through Friday afternoon
* A low pressure system will bring another round of soaking rainfall to southern New England during Thursday into Thursday evening. The potential exists for a widespread 1 to 1.5 inches of rainfall, and locally higher rainfall totals are possible. Recent rainfall has caused significant rises in area rivers and streams. The rainfall during Thursday will bring the threat for areas of minor river and stream flooding.
* There is the potential area river and streams to rise into minor flood during Thursday into Friday. In addition, there is the potential for substantial urban and poor drainage flooding.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Flood Watch means there is a potential for flooding based on current forecasts.
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop.
