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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

612 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007



TXC143-193-090045-

ERATH TX-HAMILTON TX-

612 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007



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

NORTHEASTERN HAMILTON AND SOUTHEASTERN ERATH COUNTIES...



...SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE...



AT 611 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 

DETECT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR DUBLIN...TO 

NORTHEAST OF HAMILTON. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY SOUTH.



THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FLOOD SITUATION. UP TO 3 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAS FALLIN IN THE HICO AND CARLTON AREAS SINCE 515 PM. THE 

HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN THE 

HICO AREA. SIGNIFICANT FLOODING WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING.



SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES...ROADS AND 

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

AREAS ARE ALL 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 3175 9825 3176 9783 3202 9800 3209 9788

      3220 9793 3206 9837 3186 9817



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