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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1011 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2007



TXC335-415-180400-

SCURRY-MITCHELL-

1011 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR

MITCHELL AND SCURRY COUNTIES...



THE SNYDER POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE SCURRY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE 

INDICATE THAT WATER IS COVERING SOME ROADS IN THE CITY OF SNYDER...

WITH SOME ROADS BEING BLOCKED OFF.  



AT 1006 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO

DETECT BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING NORTH TO NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH 

ACROSS SCURRY AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 1 TO 2 

INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS JUST ABOUT ALL OF BOTH COUNTIES 

THIS EVENING...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES ACROSS 

SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MITCHELL COUNTY. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO CAUSE 

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS...BAR DITCHES...CULVERTS...CITY 

STREETS...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS THIS EVENING. 



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

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. 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.



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 3292 10117 3293 10069 3211 10068 3212 10116

TIME...MOT...LOC 0308Z 160DEG 12KT 3259 10099



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