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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

646 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007



TXC143-193-090045-

ERATH TX-HAMILTON TX-

646 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007



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

NORTHERN HAMILTON AND SOUTHEASTERN ERATH COUNTIES...



...DANGEROUS FLASH FLOOD EVENT CONTINUES...



AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 

DETECT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM NEAR LONE 

MOUNTAIN...TO JUST NORTH OF HAMILTON..TO NORTH OF POTTSVILLE. 

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 10 MPH.



A SIGNIFICANT AND DANGEROUS FLASH FLOOD EVENT IS IN PROGRESS. OVER 

TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 530 PM OVER SOUTHERN ERATH AND 

NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTIES. WIDESPREAD FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN 

THE HICO AND CARLTON AREAS...AND SEVERAL ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED 

UNDER WATER IN SOUTHERN ERATH COUNTY.



THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE DANGEROUS DURING 

A FLASH FLOOD. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER 

COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR 

CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 3171 9831 3170 9778 3202 9800 3209 9788

      3220 9793 3206 9837 3186 9817



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