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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

803 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2005



TXC329-151500-

MIDLAND-

803 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR MIDLAND

COUNTY...



AT 753 AM CDT...A LOCAL TELEVISION STATION REPORTED THE INTERSECTION 

OF WADLEY AND GODFREY WAS FLOODED...WITH CARS AND TRUCKS STRANDED IN 

HIGH WATER.  AT 757 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 

INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...19 MILES 

SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF MIDLAND...AND MOVING MOVING EAST AT 15 

MPH.  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTOMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH OVER THE 

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT MIDLAND AND INTO THE CITY OF MIDLAND.  MORE 

FLASH FLOODING OF URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IS LIKELY.



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 3169 10228 3176 10186 3207 10179 3206 10226



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