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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1008 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007



TXC103-210530-

CRANE-

1008 PM CDT FRI JUL 20 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR

EASTERN CRANE COUNTY...



AT 1006 PM CDT...THE CRANE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THE 

INTERSECTION OF 8TH AND GASTON STREETS WAS FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. 

THIS INTERSECTION HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF 

TRANSPORTATION. 



AT 1007 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED 

TO DETECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS 

EASTERN CRANE COUNTY. RAINFALL RATES UP TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES 

PER CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 

WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED

ROADS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY

CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



LAT...LON 3164 10265 3165 10231 3116 10231 3122 10244

TIME...MOT...LOC 0308Z 180DEG 0KT 3139 10236



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