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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Update on Floods in the City of Dallas

5/29/2015 – 4:00 PM


The City of Dallas Emergency Operations Center will remain activated at a Level 3 – Monitoring Status through 7:00PM Saturday evening to assist in the coordination of response by multiple City Departments to the Flooding that has occurred overnight in Dallas. The City of Dallas received approximately 6.8 inches of rain in Northeast Dallas overnight. The lowest rain total in the city was 1.5 inches in far South Dallas.

In the overnight hours and into early morning, both the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue Departments answered calls for 165 street blockages, 163 persons in danger from high water calls, and 84 minor accidents. Additionally, the Dallas Police Department and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) responded to flooding and blockage of Loop 12 & Interstate 30.

The City continues to focus efforts on blocking flooded roadways and developing plans for reliving traffic throughout the City as a result of the floods. A traffic plan has been created in conjunction with TxDOT to close segments of Loop 12 near Interstate 30 from traffic due to flooding concerns. Additional information on Road Closures can be found on the OEM Twitter account @DallasOEM.

The City continues to operate the Flood Control system to keep water from affecting property or causing injury to citizens. As of the latest forecasts, the Trinity River is expected to crest late Friday evening at 43 feet which will keep the river well within the banks of the levee system. We remain in close contact with the National Weather Service in monitoring the potential for additional heavy rainfall and flash flooding tonight through Saturday morning.

The City has Flooded Roadway Warning Signs activated at the following locations:

Frost, Oakdale, Farragut @ Oakland Channel
Hatcher, 4700
Pemberton Hill @ Sarah Lee
Sargent @ Southerland
California Crossing @ Luna
Luna @ Y Tantor @ X
Wildwood @ California Crossing
Goforth @ Lanshire
Merriman Pkwy, 7400
West Lawther @ Northwest Hwy

The following streets remain closed due to flooding:

ELSIE F HIGGINS & JUNCTION
ELSIE F HIGGINS & BRUTON
GOOD LATIMER; BETWEEN SWISS & LIVE OAK
4100 E Overton
4400 TO 4600 ELSIE F HIGGENS
800 PLYMOUTH
W LAWTHER, BETWEEN GO FORTH AND NW HWY
GO FORTH AND W LAWTHER
MERRIMAN PKWY, BETWEEN FAIR OAK & ABRAMS
SB Park Central under I-635 N Tyler St/N Polk St
S Westmoreland Rd/N Clarendon Ave
N Walton Walker Serv Rd NB/W Jefferson Blvd
N Walton Walker Serv Rd NB/Bernal Dr
Sylvan Ave/W Commerce St (Near Muncie Ave; under the train tressel)
N Walton Walker Blvd SB/Dallas Ft Worth Ramp EB
Sylvan Ave/Fort Worth Ave
Clymer St/Singleton Blvd


The City of Dallas continues to stress to motorists not to drive into water on roadways, or to drive around barricaded roadways. These barricades are put in place to protect lives and property from dangerous flooding. We ask our media partners to continue to push this message to the public.