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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

845 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT



* AT 844 AM CDT...ECTOR COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING ACROSS

  PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF ODESSA.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR

  CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG INTERSTATE 20

  FROM ODESSA SOUTHWESTWARD TO THE ECTOR COUNTY LINE...AND ALSO

  BETWEEN ODESSA AND NOTREES.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.



* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

  ODESSA...



FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING IN MANY OF THE FLOOD PRONE AREAS IN 

ODESSA.  FLOODING IS ONGOING ALONG DIXIE STREET BETWEEN 42ND AND 

UNIVERSITY STREETS...FROM 2ND STREET STREET TO ELLIOTT AND KELLY 

ROADS...ALONG PUEBLO STREET NEAR 8TH STREET...ALONG MUSKINGUM 

ROAD...AND IN NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF ODESSA IN THE 

PENBROOK AND EVERGLADE AREAS.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM ONGOING 

THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY ENHANCE FLOOD POTENTIAL THROUGH THE 

REMAINDER OF THIS MORNING.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED

ROADS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY

AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. 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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