Flood Watch

Areal Flood Watch
Expires 8:00 PM EDT on June 28, 2013
Statement as of 3:20 am EDT on June 28, 2013
Flood Watch remains in effect through this evening...
The Flood Watch continues for
* portions of western Maine and New Hampshire... including the
following areas... in western Maine... Androscoggin... Central
Somerset... coastal Cumberland... coastal Waldo... coastal York...
interior Cumberland... interior Waldo... interior York...
Kennebec... Knox... Lincoln... northern Franklin... northern
Oxford... Sagadahoc... southern Franklin... southern Oxford and
southern Somerset. In New Hampshire... Belknap... coastal
Rockingham... interior Rockingham... Merrimack... northern
Carroll... northern Coos... northern Grafton... southern
Carroll... southern Coos... southern Grafton... Strafford and
Sullivan.
* Through this evening
* occasional heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms will occur
today. Rainfall amounts may vary quite a bit from location to
location... but a general three quarters to an inch to 2 inches
is expected today... with locally higher amounts.
* Sharp rises on rivers and streams to near bankfull may occur.
Embedded thunderstorms will produce locally heavier rainfall
amounts with the potential for very localized flash flooding.
Some Road and urban flooding is also possible.