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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA

205 AM CST WED MAR 20 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE EXPIRED FOR BOWIE...CAMP...CASS...

FRANKLIN...MORRIS...RED RIVER...TITUS...HEMPSTEAD...HOWARD...LITTLE

RIVER...MILLER...SEVIER...FRANKLIN...MORRIS...RED RIVER...TITUS...

HEMPSTEAD...HOWARD...LITTLE RIVER...MILLER...BOWIE COUNTIES IN

NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 AM FOR LAFAYETTE

AND NEVADA COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...



...A FLOOD WATCH WILL CONTINUE FOR TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY FOR

EXTREME SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...EXTREME NORTHEAST TEXAS...AND MOST OF

SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...



SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...HOPE...DE QUEEN...

TEXARKANA...IDABEL...CLARKSVILLE...AND PITTSBURG.



GROUND CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN VERY SATURATED OVERNIGHT AS STRONG

THUNDERSTORMS RECENTLY DUMPED FROM ONE TO NEAR TWO INCHES ACROSS

AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED DAYTIME RAINFALL OF ONE TO NEAR THREE

INCHES. A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND EMBEDDED HEAVIER SHOWERS WILL

CONTINUE ACROSS FOR MOST OF THE NIGHT...AND ONCE AGAIN ON

WEDNESDAY.



KEEP IN MIND THAT MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO

NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS...IF WATER

COVERS THE ROADWAY.

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