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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

309 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005



TXC097-082230-

COOKE TX-

309 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR EASTERN COOKE

COUNTY...



AT 306 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 

DETECT A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING 

FROM NEAR MUENSTER...TO GAINESVILLE...TO NEAR LAKE RAY ROBERTS. 

MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY NORTH.



AT 308 PM CDT...COOKE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED 

WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING AND SOME STRANDED VEHICLES IN GAINESVILLE.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY

ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER

LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. LESS THAN THREE FEET

OF OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN

AROUND...DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 3344 9727 3345 9693 3381 9698 3381 9736



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