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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

527 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007



TXC143-193-090045-

ERATH TX-HAMILTON TX-

527 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007



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

CENTRAL HAMILTON AND SOUTHEASTERN ERATH COUNTIES...



AT 527 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER METEOROLOGISTS 

CONTINUED TO DETECT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR 

HICO...TO NORTHWEST OF CARLTON. OTHER HEAVY RAIN WAS DETECTED SOUTH 

OF CHALK MOUNTAIN. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.



THE HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED ROADS FLOODED IN THE 

HICO AREA.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THE 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. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT 

DROWN.



LAT...LON 3184 9814 3196 9797 3202 9800 3209 9788

      3220 9793 3200 9829



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