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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

523 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007



TXC143-425-270045-

ERATH TX-SOMERVELL TX-

523 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR

SOMERVELL AND SOUTHERN ERATH COUNTIES...



...SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE...



AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR RAINBOW...TO GLEN 

ROSE...TO DUBLIN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DINOSAUR

VALLEY STATE PARK...STEPHENVILLE AND GLEN ROSE



RAINFALL OF 3 INCHES PER HOUR IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE SIGNIFICANT FLASH 

FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OVER SOMERVELL AND SOUTHEASTERN ERATH 

COUNTIES. 



SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG 

THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE VULNERABLE 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 3196 9833 3199 9823 3193 9820 3211 9788

      3221 9760 3233 9762 3218 9848



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