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WGUS74 KCRP 311530

FFSCRP

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX

1025 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JIM WELLS COUNTY 

THROUGH 1145 AM CDT...



AT 1025 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A DEVELOPING 

AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH 

CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PARTS OF JIM WELLS COUNTY...MAINLY ALONG AND TO 

THE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 44.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND ONE 

INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM ALICE NORTHWARD.  



THE JIM WELLS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS THAT COUNTY ROADS 

226...228 AND 230 ARE FLOODED.  THESE AND MANY OTHER ROADS REMAIN 

FLOODED DUE TO HIGH WATER AND FLOODING RAINS.  MOTORISTS PLANNING ON 

TRAVELING ACROSS JIM WELLS COUNTY THIS MORNING SHOULD PLAN AN 

ALTERNATE MEANS OF TRAVEL.  RESIDENTS LIVING IN JIM WELLS COUNTY 

SHOULD REMAIN AWAY FROM SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS.  MOVE TO HIGHER 

GROUND AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE WATER LEVELS BEGIN TO DECREASE.



STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE 

WARNINGS ON THIS SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING EVENT.



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