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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

200 AM CDT SUN MAY 6 2001



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR DENTON...AND TARRANT COUNTIES

UNTIL 230 AM.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR COLLIN COUNTY UNTIL 400 AM.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR DALLAS COUNTY UNTIL 445 AM.



HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER MUCH OF COLLIN COUNTY...AND

PARTS OF SOUTHERN FORT WORTH.  ANOTHER BAND OF HEAVY RAIN...

EXTENDED FROM COPPELL...TO GRAND PRAIRIE...AND WILL MOVE EAST AT 30

MPH ACROSS DALLAS COUNTY...ALONG AND NORTH OF I 30.  THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN HIGH IN THESE AREAS.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY

OR PAST BARRICADES.  WATER PONDING ON HIGHWAYS CAN CAUSE

HYDRO PLANING...AND LOSS OF CONTROL.  SLOW DOWN WHERE RAINFALL IS

HEAVY.



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