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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX

828 PM CST MON OCT 28 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HARRIS AND FORT BEND COUNTIES

UNTIL 1015 PM CST...



FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN OR NEAR...

ROSENBERG...MISSION BEND...BELLAIRE...ADDICKS...JERSEY VILLAGE... 

AND HOUSTON



AT 823 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MOST OF 

CENTRAL HARRIS COUNTY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 59 AND INSIDE THE 

610 LOOP.  THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING BETWEEN MISSION BEND 

AND ALDINE.  AT 820 PM...FLOODING WAS REPORTED AT HARWIN AND BOONE 

STREETS ON THE WEST SIDE OF HOUSTON.  CARS WERE REPORTED FLOODED AT 

810 PM IN THE RIVERTIME APARTMENT COMPLEX AT WESTHEIMER AND BELTWAY 

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FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN SMALL CREEKS...STREAMS... 

BAYOUS...UNDERPASSES...AND FEEDER ROADS. DO NOT CROSS ANY LOCATION 

WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD



USE EXTRA CAUTION AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS

OF FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT CROSS ACROSS ANY LOCATION WHERE WATER COVERS

THE GROUND



PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE COUNTY SHERIFF...LOCAL POLICE...OR

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.



LAT...LON 3016 9511 3002 9507 2984 9493 2959 9501

          2952 9518 2962 9530 2958 9544 2945 9547

          2928 9586 2948 9606 2973 9603 2975 9592

          2981 9583 3011 9593 3008 9586 3010 9567

          3016 9554 3011 9549 3004 9530 3007 9522

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