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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

845 PM CDT TUE AUG 20 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WESTERN LOVING AND

NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 PM CDT...



AT 835 PM CDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED WATER 6 INCHES OVER

THE ROAD AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 285 AND ROUTE 426...10 MILES

SOUTH OF ORLA IN NORTHERN REEVES COUNTY. IN ADDITION BAR DITCHES AND

CULVERTS WERE REPORTED OVERFLOWING. 



AT 840 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...

PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...ACROSS NORTHERN REEVES COUNTY NORTH 

OF INTERSTATE 20...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF ORLA...AND OPEN COUNTRY OF

EXTREME WESTERN LOVING COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN

NORTHWESTERN REEVES AND WESTERN LOVING COUNTIES THROUGH AT LEAST

1015 PM CDT. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL AGGRAVATE ANY FLOODING

PROBLEMS.



DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR

IN AUTOMOBILES.



LAT...LON 3153 10405 3159 10367 3181 10366 3195 10359

          3199 10379 3197 10399  

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