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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX

1124 AM CDT THU OCT 24 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SUTTON AND 

KIMBLE COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 PM CDT...



AT 1120 AM CDT...THE KIMBLE COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED THAT 

HIGHWAY 377 SOUTH OF JUNCTION WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. IN

SUTTON COUNTY...HIGH WATER REMAINS ON HIGHWAY 189...ALONG WITH 

SOME COUNTY ROADS...ESPECIALLY SOUTHWEST OF SONORA.



FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG THE SOUTH LLANO RIVER IN KIMBLE 

COUNTY.  



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE AREA 

OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED EAST OF

SUTTON AND KIMBLE COUNTIES. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL OCCUR THROUGH

EARLY AFTERNOON...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS LESS THAN ONE

QUARTER OF AN INCH. 

 

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO

CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

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