Flash Flood — Essex, Massachusetts

2023-08-08 · near North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts

Event narrative

In North Andover, a senior housing center on Main St was underwater leading to the evacuation of 150 residents.

Wider weather episode

A trough moved from the eastern Great Lakes into the mid Atlantic then New England on Tuesday. Southern New England was in the warm sector of a weak low which provided enough instability for scattered thunderstorms Tuesday morning into early afternoon before the cold front moved through. There was an EF-1 tornado in Mattapoisett and an EF-0 tornado in Barnstable.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1119879. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.