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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

830 AM CDT FRI AUG 17 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FRIDAY

MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

     DALLAS AND TARRANT



AT 830 AM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH 

VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS TARRANT AND DALLAS COUNTIES.  

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 30 BETWEEN 

ARLINGTON AND DALLAS.  STREET FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHERN 

TARRANT COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING 

CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE MID MORNING.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND 

UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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