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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX

930 PM MDT MON OCT 7 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CANCELLED FOR FAR WESTERN TEXAS AND SOUTH 

CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO...



SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BOTH WEAKENED AND DECREASED IN 

COVERAGE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WESTERN TEXAS LATE 

THIS EVENING. WHILE SCATTERED AREAS OF RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED THE 

REST OF TONIGHT...RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD NOT BE EXCESSIVE. 

THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE REGION HAS BEEN CANCELLED.



EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS CAUSED SOME 

FLOODING OVER SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO BETWEEN LORDSBURG AND ANTELOPE 

WELLS. IN ADDITION FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON 

AND EARLY THIS EVENING AT REDROCK CANYON IN THE GILAS.



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THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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