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Flash Flood — Karnes, TX

Sep 5, 2001

Thunderstorms formed again in the mid afternoon over the eastern part of the Texas Hill Country and spread southeastward into the I-35 corridor from New Braunfels southward past San Antonio into the Pearsall area. With the soils saturated over nearly all of the South Central Texas area, flash flooding redeveloped as rain totals were generally 1 to 2 inches. Highest rain totals were 4 to 6 inches in southeast Medina County and southwest Bexar County Natalia to Von Ormy, 3 to 5 inches in northwe

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5266199). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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