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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

629 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2005



TXC135-151345-

ECTOR-

629 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 845 AM CDT FOR ECTOR

COUNTY...



AT 621 AM CDT...THE ODESSA FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING

ALONG MUSKINGUM FROM 8TH TO UNIVERSITY...ALONG UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD

FROM DIXIE TO ANDREWS...AND AT THE INTERSECTION OF KERMIT AND WEST 

COUNTY ROAD.  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL MOVE 

EAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS MUCH OF ECTOR COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF 

ODESSA.



SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING

INCLUDE...ODESSA AND GARDENDALE.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN

AROUND... DONT DROWN.



TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL

WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.



LAT...LON 3205 10274 3169 10273 3168 10232 3206 10231



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