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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

1235 AM CDT WED OCT 23 2002



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR VAL VERDE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1205 AM CDT...

...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR EDWARDS...KINNEY AND 

MAVERICK COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 1230 AM...

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS 

TONIGHT...



A FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT...ALONG AND NORTHEAST OF A DEL 

RIO TO SAN ANTONIO TO PLEASANTON LINE...INCLUDING THE AUSTIN AND

SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREAS.



THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING.



THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



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

COMAL...DEWITT...EDWARDS...FAYETTE...GILLESPIE...GONZALES...

GUADALUPE...HAYS...KARNES...KENDALL...KERR...KINNEY...LAVACA...LEE...

LLANO...MEDINA...REAL...TRAVIS...UVALDE...VAL VERDE...WILLIAMSON AND

WILSON.



EARLY THIS MORNING AREAS OF RAIN...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS 

FROM LLANO AND BURNET COUNTIES TO MAVERICK...DIMMIT...AND ZAVALA 

COUNTIES...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.  THIS WILL MOVE OVER THE REST OF 

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT...INCLUDING THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO 

METROPOLITAN AREAS.  

 

LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 

TONIGHT...ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS 20 TO 40 MPH...SOME HAIL...AND 

OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. 

  

GENERAL RAIN AMOUNTS NEAR ONE HALF TO ONE INCH IS POSSIBLE 

TONIGHT...WITH SCATTERED 1 TO 3 INCH AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.  SINCE SOME 

AREAS HAVE HAD HEAVY RAINS THIS MONTH...IT WILL NOT TAKE AS MUCH 

RAIN TO CAUSE SOME FLOODING AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS OR LOW LYING 

AREAS.  



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

LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA.



PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF STORM-RELATED DEATHS IN 

SOUTH TEXAS IS DUE TO MOTORISTS TRYING TO DRIVE THROUGH RAPIDLY 

MOVING FLOODED AREAS.  DO NOT DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES.



THE SECOND MOST FREQUENT CAUSE OF STORM-RELATED DEATHS IN SOUTH 

TEXAS IS DUE TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WALKING NEAR OR PLAYING IN 

FLOODED CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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