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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1000 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007



TXC443-270530-

TERRELL-

1000 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR

TERRELL COUNTY...



AT 956 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 

DETECT A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN

TERRELL COUNTY.  THIS STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY.  



RADAR HAS ESTIMATED OVER FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS 

NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY...NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 349 AND 

FM 2400...OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS.  



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE NUMEROUS LOW WATER CROSSING WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN.  MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE 

PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED 

ROADWAYS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO 

RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 2978 10211 2991 10238 3007 10258 3027 10258

      3029 10237 3060 10236 3060 10215 3066 10214

      3064 10167 3062 10165 3050 10167 3041 10174

      3036 10165 3028 10176 2976 10179



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