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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

925 AM CDT SUN SEP 9 2001



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL NOON TODAY FOR GUADALUPE...

GONZALES...LAVACA...AND DEWITT COUNTIES...

...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL 10 AM FOR

LEE...BASTROP AND FAYETTE COUNTIES...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU 6 PM TODAY FOR MAINLY THE EASTERN TWO-

THIRDS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...



THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



ATASCOSA...BANDERA...BASTROP...BEXAR...BLANCO...BURNET...CALDWELL...

COMAL...DEWITT...FAYETTE...FRIO...GILLESPIE...GONZALES...GUADALUPE...

HAYS...KARNES...KENDALL...KERR...LAVACA...LEE...LLANO...MEDINA...

TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON AND WILSON.



VERY HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO FORM ACROSS PARTS OF GUADALUPE...

GONZALES...LAVACA AND DEWITT COUNTIES.  THIS RAIN AREA IS

VERY SIMILIAR TO THE RAIN AREAS THAT AFFECTED PARTS OF LEE...BASTROP

AND FAYETTE COUNTIES EARLIER THIS MORNING.  FEDOR IN LEE COUNTY HAD

3.20 INCHES OF RAIN...WHILE BASTROP IN BASTROP COUNTY HAD 1.95

INCHES.  RAIN FORMATION ACROSS PARTS OF GUADALUPE...GONZALES...LAVACA

AND DEWITT COUNTIES COULD CAUSE FLOODING.



ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM VAL VERDE COUNTY EAST

TO THE WEST HILL COUNTRY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.  FURTHER SOUTHEAST

AN AREA OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM WEST OF

SAN MARCOS TO HONDO TO PEARSALL...THEN EAST TO SAN ANTONIO...

PLEASANTON...FLORESVILLE AND STOCKDALE.   AREAS OF RAIN AND SHOWERS

WERE ALSO LOCATED EAST OF AUSTIN TO PARTS OF LEE...BASTROP AND

FAYETTE COUNTIES.



FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE

AND LIGHTNING IS LIKELY.  WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 20 AND 40 MPH AND SOME

HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS.



A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT THE FLOODING OF STREAMS...CREEKS...AND

LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE OR COULD DEVELOP WITHIN THE WATCH AREA

TODAY.  SINCE SO MUCH RAIN FELL IN LATE AUGUST AND EARLY SEPTEMBER...

IT WILL NOT TAKE AS MUCH RAIN AS NORMAL TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.



MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINS AND AVOID DRIVING

THROUGH LOW LYING AREAS OR INTO HIGH WATER.  DO NOT DRIVE AROUND

BARRICADES.  ROADS AND HIGHWAYS THAT GET WET FROM RAINS WILL MAKE

FOR SLIPPERY DRIVING CONDITIONS ON THIS 2ND SUNDAY OF SEPTEMBER.



COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TODAY IN WAKE OF SEVERAL WARM AND

HUMID LATE SUMMER DAYS THURSDAY...FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.  A CHANCE

OF RAIN IS EXPECTED TONIGHT...AND THEN DECREASING ON MONDAY.

BY TUESDAY TO NEXT WEEKEND...DRY DAYS ARE

EXPECTED.



ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

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