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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX

1025 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR DONLEY COUNTY UNTIL 1100 PM

CDT...



A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER IN CLARENDON REPORTED 7.24 INCHES OF RAINFALL 

AS OF 1011 PM CDT. THIS AMOUNT FELL FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 

THE LATE EVENING HOURS.



AT 1017 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE 

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN DONLEY COUNTY. THE 

STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING NORTH TO NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.



DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR 

IN AUTOMOBILES. REMEMBER...BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT 

IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING.



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