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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

709 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LAVACA...DEWITT AND KARNES

COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM CDT...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS NEAR AND

EAST OF I-35 THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...



IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL

AFFECT PARTS OF KENDALL...BEXAR...MEDINA...AND FRIO COUNTIES.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 40 MPH AND OCCASIONAL

LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS

OVER PARTS OF BEXAR...MEDINA...KENDALL AND FRIO COUNTIES.



FURTHER EAST...AREAS OF RAIN AND SHOWERS ARE EXPERCTED TO CONTINUE

FROM GEORGETOWN TO THE AUSTIN AREA AND SOUTH TO NEAR I-10.



RAINFALL RATES VARIED FROM LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH PER

HOUR TO AROUND THREE QUARTERS INCH PER HOUR IN THE HEAVIEST

AREAS OF RAIN.



EARLIER TODAY CUERO HAD 1.37 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 330 THIS

AFTERNOON...WHILE YOAKUM HAD 1.10 INCHES OF RAIN FOR TODAY.  AS THE

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED NORTH AND NORTHWEST ACROSS SOUTH

CENTRAL TEXAS IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...WINDS GUSTED

TO NEAR 35 MPH...AS TEMPERATURES MODERATED FROM THE MID AND UPPER 80S

TO THE MID AND UPPER 70S IN AREAS OF RAIN.



A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED

WEDNESDAY.  LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE.



MOTORISTS CAN PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY AND AVOID INJURY

BY NOT DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD

OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE

ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.  CHILDREN CAN PLAY SAFE

AND STAY AWAY FROM LOW LYING AREAS...WHERE LIFE THREATENING

WATER IS POSSIBLE.



STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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