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NMZ032-TXZ055-056-290200-



URBAN AND ARROYO FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX

607 PM MDT THU JUN 28 2001



...URBAN AND ARROYO FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THIS EVENING...



AT 6 PM THIS EVENING A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY 

RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN DONA ANA COUNTY NEW 

MEXICO AND NORTHWESTERN HUDSPETH COUNTY TEXAS. RADAR INDICATED THESE 

STORMS HAD PRODUCED OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN NEAR CHAPARRAL NEW 

MEXICO AND NEAR HIGHWAY 62 IN HUDSPETH COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE 

MOVING INTO THE EL PASO TEXAS METROPOLITAN AREA. 



HEAVY RAINS WERE ALSO FALLING IN WEST CENTRAL DONA ANA COUNTY NEW 

MEXICO ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 10 WEST OF LAS CRUCES. 



THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION EARLY TONIGHT 

WITH URBAN STREET FLOODING AND ARROYO FLOODING OCCURRING OVER THIS 

AREA...INCLUDING IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF EL PASO. PERSONS 

TRAVELLING MUST REMEMBER NEVER TO DRIVE OR TRAVEL ACROSS WATER 

COVERED ROADS BUT INSTEAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES OF 

TRAVEL.

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