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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

1000 PM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CANCELED FOR KERR...BANDERA...KENDALL AND 

GILLESPIE COUNTIES...  



...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING HILL 

COUNTRY AND ADJACENT AREAS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...



ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF SAN ANTONIO AND 

AUSTIN...AND OVER ADJACENT SECTIONS OF THE EDWARDS PLATEAU...A FLASH 

FLOOD WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING.  THIS AREA 

IS EXTREMELY PRONE TO THE EFFECTS OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN AND 

FLOODING SINCE MOST OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL THE PAST WEEK HAS OCCURRED 

OVER THE HILL COUNTRY.  ALTHOUGH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE 

DIMINISHED CONSIDERABLY IN AREAL COVERAGE...THERE IS AN AREA OF 

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE HILL COUNTRY WHICH 

IS MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD AND COULD MOVE INTO THE HILL COUNTRY EARLY 

SUNDAY MORNING.  ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM THESE STORMS 

COULD ADD TO THE ALREADY HIGH TOTALS AFFECTING FLOODED AND SWOLLEN 

RIVERS AND WATERSHEDS.



THIS REMAINS A DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING RIVER FLOOD

SITUATION.  JUST BECAUSE THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS

ABATED SOMEWHAT...PLEASE DO NOT THINK THE RIVER FLOOD EVENT IS

OVER.  IN SOME AREAS...IT IS JUST BEGINNING AND WILL CONTINUE WELL

INTO NEXT WEEK...ESPECIALLY THOSE LOCALES DOWNSTREAM ON THE

GUADALUPE...MEDINA AND SAN ANTONIO RIVERS.



ADDITIONAL BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED PERIODICALLY AS WEATHER

AND RIVER CONDITIONS WARRANT.

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