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WGUS74 KEWX 020337

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TXC029-091-209-453-020430-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

1037 PM CDT MON JUL 1 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR TRAVIS...HAYS...COMAL AND 

BEXAR COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...



A VERY DANGEROUS LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION IS UNFOLDING ALONG THE 

INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR FROM THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREA TO THE 

AUSTIN METROPOLITAN AREA. 

 

AT 1030 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH RAINFALL 

RATES OF 1 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR AS WELL AS WIDESPREAD SHOWERS WITH 

RAINFALL RATE OF ONE-HALF TO ONE INCH PER HOUR.



THIS RAIN WAS MOVING OVER AREAS THAT HAD ALREADY RECIEVED 

SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS.  



NUMEROUS CREEKS AND RIVERS WERE IN OR APPROACHING MAJOR FLOOD 

CONDITIONS.  



IN BEXAR COUNTY...APACHE CREEK...LEON CREEK...OLMOS CREEK...SALADO

   CREEK...SAN ANTONIO RIVER...ZARZAMORA CREEK.



IN COMAL COUNTY...BLIEDERS CREEK...COMAL RIVER...DRY COMAL RIVER.



IN HAYS COUNTY...BLANCO RIVER...SAN MARCOS RIVER.



IN TRAVIS COUNTY...BARTON SPRINGS CREEK...ONION CREEK.



SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS 

AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.  AREA DOPPLER RADARS SHOW SOME ARE 

ALREADY REDEVELOPING SOUTH OF THIS AREA.  THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 

WILL MOVE INTO THE WARNING AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND 

RESULT IN THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS LIKELY BEING EXTENDED WELL PAST 

MIDNIGHT.



DUE TO THIS VERY DANGEROUS LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION...TRAVEL IS 

NOT RECOMMENDED.



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

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