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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

1100 PM CDT MON SEP 3 2001



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

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT TUESDAY

MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

     LIMESTONE



AT 1100 PM CDT...MEXIA FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SOME MINOR FLOODING 

OF LOW-LYING AREAS.  CONSIDERABLE PONDING OF WATER WAS ALSO OBSERVED 

ON U.S. HIGHWAY 84 NEAR MEXIA.  



MANY AREAS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY RECEIVED 1 TO 2 

INCHES OF RAINFALL WITHIN THE LAST TWO HOURS.  THOUGH THE HEAVY 

RAINFALL WAS EXITING THE COUNTY...CONSIDERABLE RUNOFF COULD CONTINUE 

THROUGH 100 AM.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF 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.

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