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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

401 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ELLIS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...



...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR NORTH TEXAS EAST OF A

   GAINESVILLE TO MERIDIAN TO GATESVILLE LINE...



AT 355 A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COVERED NORTH

CENTRAL TEXAS NORTHWEST OF A SULPHUR SPRINGS...TEMPLE LINE.  THIS

AREA HAS REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY FOR THE PAST THREE HOURS.  RADAR

INDICATED THAT 1/2 TO 1 AND 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS

THIS AREA SINCE 1 AM.  ALTHOUGH NO FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE

CURRENTLY IN EFFECT...STREET FLOODING AND WATER PONDING IN LOW

LYING AREAS WILL BE LIKELY THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY

OR PAST POLICE BARRICADES.

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