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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1000 AM CDT SUN MAY 15 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 100 PM CDT



* AT 1000 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED

  TO DETECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF

  MIDLAND COUNTY...AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL REDEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS

  AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN.

  MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.



THE COMBINATION OF WATER RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG 

WITH ONGOING AND ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LEAD TO A 

CONTINUED THREAT OF FLOODING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS ACROSS 

MIDLAND COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MIDLAND.



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 3169 10228 3176 10186 3207 10179 3206 10226



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