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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
213 PM EDT Mon Aug 26 2024

The National Weather Service in Norton has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Northwestern Hartford County in northern Connecticut...
  Southwestern Hampden County in western Massachusetts...

* Until 615 PM EDT.

* At 213 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated repeated rounds of 
  thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 
  0.5 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate 
  is 1 inch in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts up to 3 inches 
  are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or 
  expected to begin shortly as storms re-develop off the terrain of 
  the Berkshires and Litchfield Hills and move over the same areas.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

  SOURCE...Radar.

  IMPACT...Rapid rises on small creeks and streams, as well as
           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...
  Hartford, West Hartford, Bristol, Westfield, Windsor, Farmington, 
  Simsbury, Bloomfield, Avon, Suffield, Granby, Canton, Southwick, 
  Burlington, East Granby, Hartland, Russell, Granville, Blandford 
  and Tolland.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood 
deaths occur in vehicles.

In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are 
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded 
roads. Find an alternate route.

&&

LAT...LON 4204 7304 4215 7306 4214 7303 4222 7301
      4212 7281 4193 7272 4174 7271 4171 7280
      4170 7299 4180 7300 4181 7295 4184 7294
      4185 7295 4189 7294 4190 7292 4197 7289
      4197 7303 4204 7301

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL RATE...1 INCH IN 1 HOUR

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