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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

844 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR

PERSONS IN...



  BEXAR COUNTY

  GUADALUPE COUNTY



AT 845 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 

FROM SOUTH SAN ANTONIO NEAR SOMERSET ACROSS SOUTH BEXAR COUNTY TO 

SEGUIN AND KINGBURY.  RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WERE 

INDICATED WITH TOTALS OF UP TO 2 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE 

THUNDERSTORMS WILL LAST FOR ANOTHER ONE TO HOURS WITH VERY LITTLE 

MOVEMENT.



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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