Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
557 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SAN ANTONIO METROPLEX...

NEAR 600 AM THIS MORNING...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  THE MOST
INTENSE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SOUTH OF SAN ANTONIO TO JOURDANTON TO
NEAR TILDEN.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...FALLING AT AN ESTIMATED RATE OF AN INCH AND A HALF
IN 30 MINUTES...IS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.  THIS
RAIN WILL CAUSE SERIOUS PROBLEMS FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THIS
MORNINGS RUSH HOUR.  MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO GET TO
WORK EARLY THIS MORNING...AND TO USE EXTREME CAUTION DUE TO POOR
VISIBILITY AND SLICK STREETS.

IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE MORE INTENSE STORMS.

BULLETIN
URBAN FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
625 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN MOVING OVER BEXAR COUNTY...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 620 AM THIS MORNING INDICATED AN AREA
OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN BEXAR
COUNTY.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THE RAINFALL RATE IN THESE INTENSE STORMS IS ESTIMATED TO BE AS HIGH AS
4 INCHES AN HOUR.  EVEN WITH THE RATHER SWIFT NORTHWARD MOVEMENT OF THE
STORMS...A GENERAL 1 INCH RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE SAN ANTONIO
METROPOLITAN AREA WITH WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA RECEIVING UP TO 2
INCHES.  THIS WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE STREETS TO RUN CURB DEEP...AND
WILL CAUSE LOW LYING AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS TO FLOOD BRIEFLY.

PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE FLOOD PRONE AREAS MUST BE READY TO MOVE TO A
SAFE LOCATION IF THE FLOODING OCCURS.  MOTORISTS MUST USE EXTREME
CAUTION AND NOT TRY TO DRI.VE INTO AREAS OF HIGH WATER.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
720 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED IN AN
AREA FROM NEW BRAUNFELS TO TILDEN TO LAREDO AND NORTHWARD TO JUNCTION.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THE MOST INTENSE RAIN WAS INDICATED FROM KERRVILLE TO BOERNE TO WESTERN
SAN ANTONIO.  IN SPITE OF THE RAPID MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...LOW LYING
AND POORLY DRAINED AREAS COULD FLOOD BRIEFLY THIS MORNING.  PERSONS WHO
LIVE NEAR FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THIS THREAT.  MOTORISTS
SHOULD ALSO REMAIN ALERT TO THE DANGER OF LOCALIsZED FLOODING AND NOT TRY
TO DRIVE INTO HIGH WATER.  POOR VISIBILITY AND SLICK STREETS WILL CAUSE
EXTRA HAZARDS IN AND NEAR THE MORE INTENSE STORMS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
740 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NOW 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN...

AT 730 AM...RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW
WITH RAINFALL RATES NEAR 2 INCHES PER HOUR...LOCATED NEAR FREDERICKS-
BURG...STONEWALL AND ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO.  THEY
WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST...OR TOWARDS AUSTIN AT 25 MPH.

PERSONS IN THE HILL COUNTRY AND AROUND THE CAPITAL AREA SHOULD PREPARE
FOR THESE STORMS LATER THIS MORNING.  THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRO-
DUCE BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

AT THE PRESENT RATE OF MOVEMENT...THEY COULD MAKE IT INTO OUR OWN
LOCAL AREA AROUND 9 AM TO NOONTIME.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
920 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

...WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SCATTERED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
WEST OF AUSTIN...

AT 915 AM...RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE RAIN AREA TO EXTEND
FROM NEAR BROWNWOOD TO LAMPASAS THEN TO LAKE TRAVIS AND NEW BRAUNFELS
AND ON INTO THE COASTAL BEND NEAR CORPUS CHRISTI.  THE HEAVIEST RAINS
WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF GOLDTHWAITE AND WEST OF LAKE BUCHANAN TO NORTH
OF JOHNSON CITY AND FREDERICKSBURG.  NEWLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE
FIRING BETWEEN JUNCTION AND SAN ANTONIO.

THE ENTIRE RAIN AREA WAS SPREADING SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD...WHILE
INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVE NORTHWARD AT 25 MPH.

KEEP A CLOSE CHECK ON LATER FORECASTS AND LISTEN FOR ANY OTHER STATEMENTS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANTONIO TX
1030 AM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987

A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED
OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY THIS MORNING.  ALL OF THIS
ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35 MPH.  THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS
THAT MOVED THROUGH SAN ANTONIO EARLIER THIS MORNING HAVE MOVED INTO THE
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY.

ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED ALONG A DRY AREA
SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO.  THIS LINE WAS LOCATED FROM THE GARNER STATE
PARK AREA SOUTHEAST TO NEAR PLEASANTON AND SHOULD MOVE INTO BEXAR COUNTY
DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.  OTHERWISE LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL
CONTINUE OFF AND ON THROUGHOUT THE MORNING.

MOST RAINFALL REPORTS SO FAR THIS MORNING WERE IN THE ONE HALF TO ONE
INCH CATEGORY WITH A FEW ISOLATED AREAS IN THE HILL COUNTRY REPORTING
2 TO 3 INCHES.  A FEW OF THE HEAVIER AMOUNTS WERE 3.00 INCHES AT
BANDERA...2.60 AT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CENTER POINT...1.95 PIPE CREEK...
1.77 AT MEDINA...AND 1.60 INCHES AT CENTER POINT.

THE AIR OVER SOUTH TEXAS WILL REMAIN UNSTABLE THROUGHOUT THE
AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING AND THE CHANCES OF RAIN WILL STAY HIGH FUNTIL
THE UPPER AIR DISTUBANCE OVER WEST TEXAS MOVES NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF
THE AREA.