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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX

1116 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 PM FOR FISHER... 

NOLAN AND CALLAHAN COUNTIES...AND UNTIL 230 PM FOR TAYLOR AND JONES 

COUNTIES...



1110 AM...ABILENE POLICE REPORTED SEVERAL STREET CLOSINGS IN THE 

CITY...DUE TO HIGH WATER. EVACUATIONS WERE TAKING PLACE IN LOW LYING 

AREAS NEAR CREEKS. SOME ACCESS ROADS TO INTERSTATE 20 WERE CLOSED 

DUE TO FLOWING WATER. 



AT 1030 AM...HIGHWAY 283 WAS CLOSED NORTH OF BAIRD...DUE TO HIGH 

WATER. 



AT 1115 AM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT THE RAINFALL HAD DECREASED IN 

INTENSITY...WITH MODERATE RAIN OCCURRING OVER THE BIG COUNTRY.



RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE 

PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS 

SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY 

AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK 

HIGHER GROUND.

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