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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

1028 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001



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

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT THURSDAY

AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

     FALLS...HILL...LIMESTONE...BELL AND MCLENNAN



IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

     ROBERTSON AND MILAM



AT 1020 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD 

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM MEXIA...TO WACO...TO ROCKDALE. 

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 MPH. PONDING OF WATER WAS REPORTED IN 

NORTHEASTERN BELL AND WESTERN FALLS COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO 

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL MOVE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY 

AFTERNOON.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS RAINFALL 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.



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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