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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

818 PM CST FRI FEB 23 2001



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM FOR PARKER COUNTY IN

NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.



AT 815 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT

THUNDERSTORMS WERE BECOMING LESS ORGANIZED OVER PARKER COUNTY. SOME

REDEVELOPMENT HAD OCCURRED OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...

AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. HOWEVER...THE OVERALL RAINFALL

RATES HAD DECREASED...AND FLOODING WAS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY 915

PM.



ELSEWHERE...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM

DENTON...TO EAGLE MOUNTAIN LAKE IN NORTHWEST TARRANT COUNTY. THIS

LINE WAS MOVING EAST ABOUT 20 MPH IN DENTON COUNTY...BUT SHOWING

LITTLE MOVEMENT IN TARRANT COUNTY. IF THIS TREND CONTINUES...A FLASH

FLOOD WARNING FOR PARTS OF TARRANT COUNTY MAY BE REQUIRED.



REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGHT.  BE ESPECIALLY

CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF

FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN AND AROUND STREAMS...CREEKS OR DRAINAGE

DITCHES.





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