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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY

935 PM MDT TUE JUL 10 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM WEDNESDAY

MORNING FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS

OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...



NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING LATE

THIS EVENING.  ONLY THE AREA FROM DOUGLAS TO WHEATLAND TO LARAMIE

AND BACK TO DOUGLAS WAS TEMPORARILY WITHOUT ANY STORMS AT 920 PM.

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART

OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...AND OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING

NORTH FROM COLORADO INTO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WYOMING.



MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...SOME

SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVED SLOWLY EAST.  LATE

THIS AFTERNOON...SOME 5 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT

FLASH FLOODING IN THE WHEATLAND WYOMING AREA.



A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND

THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 1 AM.

UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN

THE AREA...CAUSING FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND PONDING OF

WATER ON ROADS AND UNDERPASSES.



PEOPLE LIVING NEAR RIVERS...STREAMS OR IRRIGATION CANALS SHOULD BE

AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING.

IF YOU OBSERVE RISING WATER...SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.



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JLH



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