Oct 4, 2011
Low pressure southeast of Nantucket produced widespread showers across southern New England. These showers trained over an area known as the North Shore in Massachusetts, including the towns of Peabody, Swampscott, and Salem. In all, these showers produced four to six inches of rain in these towns in one to two hours, resulting in substantial urban flash flooding.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 350097). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Essex County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.