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TXC065-179-233-375-393-260130-



URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX

525 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT SATURDAY 

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE TEXAS 

PANHANDLE...



HUTCHINSON...ROBERTS...EASTERN POTTER...NORTHWESTERN GRAY...AND 

NORTHERN CARSON.



WIDESPREAD VERY HEAVY RAINS HAD OCCURED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON 

ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN TEXAS 

PANHANDLE. ACCORDING TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATES...1 

TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN 

HUTCHINSON COUNTY...NORTHERN ROBERTS COUNTY...NORTHERN CARSON COUNTY 

AND CENTRAL POTTER COUNTY. A FEW LOCATIONS IN NORTHERN ROBERTS 

COUNTY AND CENTRAL POTTERY COUNTY MAY HAVE RECEIVED AS MUCH AS 4 

INCHES OF RAIN. AT 510 PM...THE POTTER COUNTY SHERIFF/S DEPARTMENT 

REPORTED AROUND TWO FEET OF WATER COVERING HIGHWAY 87 AT AN 

UNDERPASS NEAR RIVIERA PARK NORTH OF AMARILLO. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 

CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THESE AREAS THIS EVENING...WITH RAINFALL 

RATES EXCEEDING ONE INCH PER HOUR FOR A BRIEF PERIOD.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW 

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO 

TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.



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