Flash Flood Warning for Dallas and Ellis counties in North Texas until 2:30 AM. A line of training thunderstorms is moving across the aforementioned areas. Very heavy rain with these storms will cause flash flooding over the next few hours. Do not drive into flood waters or into water over the road.

FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1137 PM CDT SAT MAY 23 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR…
DALLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS…
ELLIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS…

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 1136 PM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE…
DALLAS…GARLAND…IRVING…GRAND PRAIRIE…MESQUITE…
CARROLLTON…RICHARDSON…MANSFIELD…ROWLETT…DESOTO…
GRAPEVINE…CEDAR HILL…WYLIE…COPPELL…DUNCANVILLE…
LANCASTER…WAXAHACHIE…FARMERS BRANCH…BALCH SPRINGS AND
UNIVERSITY PARK.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. NEVER DRIVE OVER A FLOODED ROADWAY…TURN
AROUND…DONT DROWN!