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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX

600 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS EXPANDED AN URBAN AND 

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY...THAT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM 

CDT...TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE...



    SOUTHEASTERN HANSFORD AND SOUTHERN OCHILTREE.



THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 

830 PM CDT FOR 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 

CENTRAL AND EASTERN POTTER COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN HANSFORD AND 

SOUTHERN OCHILTREE COUNTY. A FEW LOCATIONS IN NORTHERN ROBERTS 

COUNTY...CENTRAL POTTER COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN HANSFORD 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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JH

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