Severe storm damage reported in southeastern Massachusetts, National Weather Service plans to survey the damage

A severe storm ripped through southeastern Massachusetts Saturday night, toppling trees and taking down wires, as National Weather Service meteorologists on Sunday planned to check out the storm damage.

A significant amount of the damage was reported in Easton, where a tree reportedly fell onto a house on Poquanticut Avenue. Numerous trees and wires were down on other roads, including a tree that fell on a vehicle on Chestnut Street.

Many damage reports also came in from Brockton and West Bridgewater. There had been a tornado warning for southeastern Massachusetts Saturday night.

“We are planning to survey storm damage in eastern CT (Chaplin to Killingly) and in southeast MA (Easton to West Bridgewater) later this morning,” the National Weather Service’s Boston office tweeted on Sunday.

“We need to coordinate with state and local emergency management before doing so, and will provide more info as it becomes available,” NWS Boston added.

Also on Saturday, another round of torrential rain led to flooding in the Boston-area.

“In the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, police reported cars stuck in street flooding on Columbus Avenue at Center Street,” the National Weather Service storm report reads.

“Two cars were stuck in flooding on Melnea Cass Blvd, which was closed from Harrison Ave. to Hampden St.,” NWS wrote. “At 645 PM, a section of Storrow Dr. outbound at the Bay State Bridge was closed, per DCR.”

Boston came in with 3.07 inches of rain on Saturday, setting a new daily record for July 29, which was previously 1.81 inches of rain in 1901.

Saturday was the fifth wettest single day during the month of July in NWS Boston station history. The record wettest day in July is 6.04 inches set on July 9, 1921.

Meanwhile, NWS Boston on Sunday was warning beachgoers about a high risk of strong rip currents.

NWS Boston tweeted, “If heading to the beach today, be prepared for rough surf & strong rip currents, especially at south facing ocean beaches from #CapeCod to the Islands and the entire Rhode Island coastline, including Block Island.”