Taunton River Flood Warning Adds a New Forecast Risk
At 11:53 a.m. EDT, the National Weather Service issued a Flood Warning for the Taunton River near Bridgewater, covering Bristol and Plymouth counties.
Situation checked: Sunday, September 27, 2026, 1:06 p.m. EDT
What's confirmed
At 11:53 a.m. EDT, the National Weather Service issued a Flood Warning for the Taunton River near Bridgewater, covering Bristol and Plymouth counties. The gauge stood at 5.6 feet at 10:45 a.m., below the 8-foot flood stage. The alert itself expires at midnight, while its forecast hazard period extends through 11 p.m. Tuesday. NWS warning, issued 11:53 a.m.; checked 1:06 p.m. EDT.
The earlier Flood Warning for urban and small-stream flooding expired at 1 p.m. Sunday. NWS zone and Massachusetts alert feeds still showed the Coastal Flood Advisory and Flood Watch with no change at 1:06 p.m. Expired NWS warning, issued 9:56 a.m.; current NWS alerts, checked 1:06 p.m. EDT.
MEMA's latest town-level rows, updated at 12:59 p.m., listed 17 customers without power: 9 in Easton and 8 in Rehoboth. The 10:09 a.m. snapshot listed 26 across Easton, Rehoboth, Fall River and New Bedford; Fall River and New Bedford are absent from the newer rows, which does not independently establish zero outages. Mass.gov says the MEMA map excludes municipally owned utilities and does not show interruptions by road. MEMA outage data, rows updated 12:59 p.m., checked 1:06 p.m.; Mass.gov outage-map limitations, checked 1:06 p.m. EDT.
No new Bristol County road closure, evacuation or confirmed flooding report was identified in the municipal, Mass511 and local-news checks completed by 1:03 p.m. EDT; previously reported preparation and localized flooding remain as documented in the earlier update. Mass511 events, checked 1:03 p.m. EDT.
What's forecast
NWS expects the river to rise above flood stage late Sunday, crest near 9.4 feet early Monday afternoon, and fall below flood stage Tuesday afternoon. At 9 feet, the warning describes possible backwater flooding at lower Purchade Brook and Woloski Park in Middleboro; those are forecast impacts, not a report of flooding or a closure now. NWS warning, issued 11:53 a.m.; checked 1:06 p.m. EDT.