Flood Advisory Issued – Heavy Rain Over Coleman/Brown Counties

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As of 3:00 pm Monday, part of Brown County and other neighboring counties had been placed in a Flood Advisory.  Heavy rain over Coleman County was moving toward the southeast, which is toward Brownwood.  The radar image shown was as of 3:00 pm Monday.  The National Weather Service in San Angelo issued the following statement:

The National Weather Service in San Angelo has issued a

* Arroyo and Small Stream Flood Advisory for...
  Southwestern Brown County in west central Texas...
  Callahan County in west central Texas...
  Coleman County in west central Texas...
  Shackelford County in west central Texas...
  Southwestern Throckmorton County in west central Texas...

* Until 400 PM CDT.

* At 201 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
  thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream flooding.
  Between 1 and 3 inches of locally heavy rain have fallen...from
  southwest of Throckmorton to Albany to Clyde to Silver Valley and
  Lake Coleman...and from east of Santa Anna to Bangs to Indian
  Creek.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Brownwood, Coleman, Clyde, Albany, Baird, Santa Anna, Bangs, Cross
  Plains, Moran, Novice, Putnam, Rowden, Oplin, Eula, Atwell,
  Dudley, Burkett, Silver Valley, Glen Cove and Lake Brownwood.

This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
I-20 Frontage Roads west of Clyde, FM-RD 136 crossing Hords Creek,
County Road 485 crossing Indian Creek, County Road 172 crossing
Little Pecan Bayou, CR 270 crossing Home Creek, County Road 482
crossing South Fork Jim Ned Creek and County Road 300 crossing Home
Creek.

This includes the following highways...
Interstate 20 between Mile Markers 295 and 322.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.