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FLASH FLOOD AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

340 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2001



...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THROUGH 8 PM FOR NORTHERN HILL COUNTRY

AND ADJACENT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN HILL COUNTRY

AND ADJACENT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR KARNES COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM...

...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL 430 PM FOR GONZALES

WILSON BEXAR LAVACA DEWITT AND ATASCOSA COUNTIES...



NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED

TO FROM THE COASTAL BEND NORTHWARD INTO THE SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN

AREAS.  SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY

RAINS...PARTICULARLY FORM KARNES CITY TO HALLETTSVILLE.  OTHER

HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE INTERSTATE 35 REGION BETWEEN SAN

ANTONIO AND AUSTIN.



ELSEWHERE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED ACROSS PORTIONS OF

CENTRAL TEXAS FROM SAN SABA TO FORT WORTH.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING

TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH.  SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD

SPREAD INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY DURING

THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON.



PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF SOUTH

CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS CAREFULLY AND BE

PREPARED TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD WARNINGS BE ISSUED.

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