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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX

602 AM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008



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VAL VERDE TX-

602 AM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 AM CDT FOR

VAL VERDE COUNTY...



AT 550 AM CDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM LAKE AMISTAD

TO NEAR JUNO AND PANDALE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.  TO THE

SOUTH...AREA OF LIGHT RAIN AND SHOWERS REMAINED NEAR DEL RIO.



OCCASIONAL RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE OVER VAL VERDE

COUNTY...NEAR AND NORTH OF LAKE AMISTAD.  THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL

CAUSE FLOODING AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON FLOOD PRONE ROADS

AND HIGHWAYS.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS

POSSIBLE OVER THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST PART OF VAL VERDE COUNTY.



RUNOFF FROM HEAVIER RAINS EARLIER THIS MORNING OVER SOUTHERN

VAL VERDE COUNTY COULD STILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING AT LOW WATER

CROSSINGS. 



AS OF 600 AM CDT THIS FRIDAY MORNING...AUGUST 29TH...2.45 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAS FALLEN AT DEL RIO.  THIS SETS A NEW DAILY RECORD RAINFALL 

FOR AUGUST 29TH AT DEL RIO.  WITH RAIN STILL FALLING THIS AMOUNT 

COULD LIKELY CHANGE TODAY.  THE OLD RECORD FOR AUGUST 29TH WAS 1.25 

INCHES ON AUGUST 29...1944.



SO FAR DEL RIO HAS HAD 7.59 INCHES OF RAIN FOR AUGUST.  THIS MAKES

AUGUST 2008 SO FAR THE 2ND WETTEST AUGUST FOR DEL RIO.  THE

WETTEST AUGUST WAS IN 1998...WHEN 20.93 INCHES OF RAIN FELL.



LAT...LON 3028 10176 3028 10175 3028 10069 2945 10069

      2924 10076 2937 10101 2947 10108 2952 10126

      2963 10126 2959 10127 2957 10130 2965 10131

      2965 10137 2974 10141 2976 10154 2979 10156

      2976 10164 2978 10175



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