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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

453 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007



TXC133-143-262345-

EASTLAND TX-ERATH TX-

453 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR ERATH

AND EASTLAND COUNTIES...



...SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING...



AT 453 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR CHALK MOUNTAIN...TO 

DUBLIN...TO NORTH OF RISING STAR. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.



SPOTTERS REPORTED A VEHICLE STRANDED IN WATER AT STEPHENVILLE...AND 

STREETS FLOODED IN STEPHENVILLE AS WELL.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

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

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

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 

SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT 

DROWN.



LAT...LON 3251 9912 3251 9806 3248 9805 3245 9805

      3209 9788 3209 9802 3199 9817 3210 9844

      3225 9855 3208 9892 3208 9912



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