Nashua police are searching for a 16-year-old Nashua North High School student who may have fallen into an open storm drain during Friday night’s heavy rain, the department on Twitter .

He had not been seen or heard from since leaving a friend’s house Friday night in the rain, police wrote in a release.

“His route home was where the storm drain was located,” police wrote on Twitter.

One of his parents told police it was “out of the ordinary for his son.”

Some of his personal items — initially suspected to be his by police and confirmed by video surveillance — had been found near a storm drain behind 75 Main St. The personal items found did not contain personal information and were “generic in nature,” police said.


Officers received a report of a person who had fallen down a storm drain at about 9:50 p.m. on Friday, police said. A person in the area told police they saw an “open storm drain with personal items on the ground nearby.” No one else in the area saw anyone fall into the drain, police said.

Fire rescue and emergency officials responded to the scene Friday evening with representatives from the City of Nashua Waste Water Department, but “due to the heavy water flow, it could not be determined if someone had fallen in,” police said.



On Saturday, local officials searched the Nashua River, Merrimack River, and “the entire underwater storm drain system north of Water Street and south to Sawmill Drive,” police said. No one was found.

Goulet is five-foot-eight, 200 pounds, and has blue eyes. He has short black hair on the sides of his head with long hair on top, and he was wearing a denim vest with metal studs, a gray shirt, black shorts, and black converse sneakers.


Anyone with information should call Nashua police at 603-594-3500.

Rainfall in the Nashua area Friday evening was between 2 and 3 inches, said Margaret Curtis, a meterologist at the National Weather Service in Maine.

Severe drought conditions, paired with fallen leaves that clogged drains, worsened flooding conditions in the region, Curtis said.

Globe Correspondent Amanda Hoover contributed to this report. Felicia Gans can be reached at felicia.gans@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @FeliciaGans.