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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

953 PM CST SUN OCT 31 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR DENTON AND TARRANT COUNTIES 

UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST...



AT 952 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN 

AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS FROM NEAR LAKE RAY 

ROBERTS...TO ARLINGTON...TO JUST WEST OF MANSFIELD. MOVEMENT OF THE 

AREA WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.



THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED 1.5 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN AS THEY MOVED 

THROUGH DENTON AND FORT WORTH. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...AND 

SOME VEHICLES STRANDED IN HIGH WATER...WERE REPORTED IN FORT WORTH. 



DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER. STAY AWAY FROM AREAS 

WHERE WATER IS FLOWING...EVEN ON FOOT. RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN 

QUICKLY SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR AT 

NIGHT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT IS HARDER TO 

RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN



LAT...LON 3339 9685 3302 9688 3301 9702 3258 9706

      3256 9733 3339 9718



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