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Massachusetts Flood Stories

954 first-hand accounts of flood events in Massachusetts, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Worcester, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Worcester, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Middlesex, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Middlesex, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Middlesex, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Franklin, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Flash Flood

Middlesex, MA · Jul 21, 2023

A warm front stalled across Connecticut and Rhode Island, producing thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall. This caused significant flash flooding. Also, wind shear was just strong enough for a few thunderstorms to become severe, with locally damaging wind gusts.

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Coastal Flood

Suffolk, MA · Jan 23, 2023

Low pressure, tracking from the New Jersey coast to Nantucket, produced heavy, wet snow that was pretty much confined to the higher elevations in western and northern Massachusetts.

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Coastal Flood

Eastern Plymouth, MA · Jan 23, 2023

Low pressure, tracking from the New Jersey coast to Nantucket, produced heavy, wet snow that was pretty much confined to the higher elevations in western and northern Massachusetts.

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Coastal Flood

Eastern Essex, MA · Jan 23, 2023

Low pressure, tracking from the New Jersey coast to Nantucket, produced heavy, wet snow that was pretty much confined to the higher elevations in western and northern Massachusetts.

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Flood

Suffolk, MA · Jan 23, 2023

Low pressure, tracking from the New Jersey coast to Nantucket, produced heavy, wet snow that was pretty much confined to the higher elevations in western and northern Massachusetts.

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Flood$15K damage

Bristol, MA · Dec 10, 2012

Unseasonably warm and humid air behind a warm front triggered the development of scattered showers and thunderstorms across southeast Massachusetts. Locally heavy rainfall in the urbanized corridor around New Bedford resulted in minor flooding.

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Coastal Flood

Southern Plymouth, MA · Mar 8, 2008

A powerful low pressure system tracked through eastern New York spreading heavy rain and strong winds across Southern New England. Heavy rain coinciding with spring snowmelt contributed to river flooding, especially along the Connecticut River.

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Flood

Plymouth, MA · Mar 8, 2008

A powerful low pressure system tracked through eastern New York spreading heavy rain and strong winds across Southern New England. Heavy rain coinciding with spring snowmelt contributed to river flooding, especially along the Connecticut River.

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Flood

Berkshire, MA · Mar 8, 2008

A strengthening low pressure system tracked from the central Gulf Coast states on Friday March 7th, into the central Appalachians by Saturday morning on March 8th.

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Flash Flood

Worcester, MA · Jul 16, 2023

A deep longwave trough, south-southwest flow at all levels, and the development of a QLCS (quasi-linear convective system) created all the ingredients for a widespread and susbstantial flash flood event across much of southern New England.

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Flash Flood

Worcester, MA · Jul 16, 2023

A deep longwave trough, south-southwest flow at all levels, and the development of a QLCS (quasi-linear convective system) created all the ingredients for a widespread and susbstantial flash flood event across much of southern New England.

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