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  • Flash Flood Warning for Eastern Essex County, Massachusetts
  • Flash Flood Warning issued September 18 at 10:17AM EDT until September 18 at 2:15PM EDT by NWS
  • Effective: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 9:17 a.m.
  • Expires: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 1:15 p.m.
  • The National Weather Service in Boston/Norton has issued a
    * Flash Flood Warning for...
    Southeastern Worcester County in central Massachusetts...
    North central Norfolk County in eastern Massachusetts...
    Suffolk County in eastern Massachusetts...
    Essex County in northeastern Massachusetts...
    Middlesex County in northeastern Massachusetts...
    * Until 215 PM EDT.
    * At 1015 AM EDT Doppler radar indicated a swath of heavy rain
    moving across the warned area. Rainfall rates of up to 1 to 3
    inches per hour were occurring. Flash flooding is expected to
    begin shortly. This includes rapid ponding of water in urban poor
    drainage areas.
    * Some locations that will experience flooding include...
    Boston, Worcester, Lowell, Cambridge, Quincy, Lynn, Nashua, Newton,
    Lawrence, Somerville, Framingham, Haverhill, Waltham, Malden,
    Brookline, Medford, Revere, Peabody, Methuen and Arlington.