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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

844 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001



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

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM CDT THURSDAY

MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

     DALLAS AND TARRANT



AT 840 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF 

HEAVY SHOWERS FROM NEAR SAGINAW TO NEAR SEAGOVILLE MOVING SLOWLY 

NORTH. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING NORTH FROM 

JOHNSON AND ELLIS COUNTIES.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS RAINFALL 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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