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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX

916 PM CST FRI MAR 23 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CST SATURDAY

MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE

     POTTER AND RANDALL



AT 915 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 

RAIN ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE MOVING SOUTH 

AND EAST INTO POTTER AND RANDALL COUNTIES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAINFALL WILL OCCUR AT A RATE OF A HALF 

INCH TO AS MUCH AS A INCH AND A HALF PER HOUR UNTIL MIDNIGHT. TOTAL 

RAINFALL FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS BY 1215 AM CST ARE EXPECTED TO BE 

AROUND A HALF INCH IN AND AROUND CANYON TO AROUND AN INCH AND A HALF 

IN THE AMARILLO AREA.



THIS WILL CREATE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW-LYING AREAS. 

ALSO...FLOODING OF STREAMS AND CREEK BEDS MAY ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH 

THE HEAVY RAINFALL. PEOPLE LIVING IN LOW-LYING AREAS SHOULD BE READY 

TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOTORISTS SHOULD 

USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS 

THE ROADS.



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