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FLASH FLOOD AND SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

527 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 LAVACA COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM...

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR DEWITT COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM...

...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR TRAVIS AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES UNTIL

630 PM...

...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL 630 PM FOR FAYETTE

WILSON LEE BASTROP CALDWELL GUADALUPE ATASCOSA AND GONZALES

COUNTIES...



NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED

FROM THE COASTAL BEND NORTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTHEASTERN SECTIONS

OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING

VERY HEAVY RAINS...PARTICULARLY FROM KARNES CITY TO HALLETTSVILLE.



OTHER HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR

FROM WESTERN TRAVIS COUNTY INTO MUCH OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY.



WIDESPREAD FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF

LAVACA COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...INUNDATING PORTIONS OF STATE

HIGHWAY 111 SOUTHWEST OF HALLETTSVILLE ACCORDING TO THE LAVACA COUNTY

SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT.



ELSEWHERE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED ACROSS PORTIONS OF

CENTRAL TEXAS EAST OF A LINE FROM LAMPASAS COUNTY TO THE DALLAS FORT

WORTH METROPLEX. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20

TO 30 MPH.



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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