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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

1145 AM CST TUE MAR 27 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM 

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 2 PM CST TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR 

PEOPLE IN...



  TRAVIS COUNTY

  WILLIAMSON COUNTY

  LEE COUNTY



AT 1144 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD 

HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS FROM AUSTIN TO JARRELL TO 

LEXINGTON TO GIDDINGS.  RAINFALL RATES OF AROUND AN INCH PER HOUR 

ARE BEING ESTIMATED WITH SOME TOTALS AROUND 2 INCHES.  THESE RAINS 

WILL PERSIST THROUGH 1 PM AND THEN DECREASE FROM THE WEST.  



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND UNDERPASSES.

ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS

AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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