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* WHAT…Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE…A portion of south central Texas, including the following counties, Gillespie and Kerr. * WHEN…Until 630 PM CDT. * IMPACTS…Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas. Dangerous flows over low-water crossings. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS… – At 316 PM CDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. – Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding. – Some locations that will experience flooding

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At 215 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 6 miles northwest of Watrous, or 17 miles southeast of Mora, moving east at 5 mph. HAZARD…Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail. SOURCE…Radar indicated. IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include… Watrous and Valmora. This includes Interstate 25 between Mile Markers 361 and 365…and between Mile Markers 366 and 372.

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19 km (12 mi)

E of epicenter

Sandy Bay

(pop: 1,070)

III: Weak

Roatan, Departamento de Islas de la Bahia 21 km (13 mi)

E of epicenter

Coxen Hole

(pop: 7,510)

III: Weak

Roatan, Departamento de Islas de la Bahia 33 km (20 mi)

E of epicenter

French Harbor

(pop: 2,700)

III: Weak

Departamento de Islas de la Bahia 57 km (36 mi)

S of epicenter

Sambo Creek

(pop: 2,530)

II: Very weak

Departamento de Atlantida 64 km (39 mi)

S of epicenter

La Ceiba

(pop: 222,100)

II: Very weak

Departamento de Atlantida 67 km (42 mi)

S of epicenter

Jutiapa

(pop: 2,820)

II: Very weak

Departamento de Atlantida 68 km (42 mi)

S of epicenter

El Porvenir

(pop: 2,270)

II: Very weak

Departamento de Atlantida 73 km (45 mi)

SE of epicenter

Rio Esteban

(pop: 1,210)

II: Very weak

Balfate, Departamento de Colon 83 km (52 mi)

SW of epicenter

Santa Ana

(pop: 3,580)

II: Very weak

San Francisco, Departamento de Atlantida 90 km (56 mi)

E of epicenter

Puerto Castilla

(pop: 1,220)

II: Very weak

Trujillo, Departamento de Colon 92 km (57 mi)

E of epicenter

Guanaja

(pop: 5,540)

II: Very weak

Departamento de Islas de la Bahia 96 km (59 mi)

SE of epicenter

Trujillo

(pop: 9,650)

II: Very weak

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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