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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

1140 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001



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

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT THURSDAY

AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

     DALLAS...KAUFMAN...ROCKWALL AND ELLIS



AT 1137 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF 

HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 

MIDLOTHIAN...TO SEAGOVILLE...TO TERRELL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 

MPH. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS RAIN 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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