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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

940 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED AN 

URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT FOR 

PERSONS IN...



  COMAL COUNTY...INCLUDING CANYON LAKE AND ADJACENT LOCATIONS...

  KENDALL COUNTY...INCLUDING BOERNE AND SURROUNDING AREAS...

  BEXAR COUNTY...INCLUDING THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA...



AT 940 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 

MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS BEXAR COUNTY AND THE SAN ANTONIO 

METROPOLITAN AREA INTO KENDALL AND COMAL COUNTIES.  SINCE SOME OF 

THESE AREAS HAVE HAD IN EXCESS OF 5 INCHES OF RAIN THE PAST COUPLE 

OF DAYS...THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING IS INCREASED. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS... 

LOW-WATER CROSSINGS AND UNDERPASSES.  ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS 

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS 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.  CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM 

CREEK AND RIVER BANKS...DRAINAGE DITCHES AND STORM CULVERTS.  SCHOOL 

BUS DRIVERS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR HIGH WATER ON ROADWAYS 

AND IN AND NEAR LOW-WATER CROSSINGS.

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