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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY...CORRECTED TYPOS

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...CENTRAL AND 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 POTTER COUNTY MAY HAVE RECEIVED AS MUCH AS 4 

INCHES OF RAIN. AT 510 PM CDT...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 STORMS 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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