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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

844 PM CDT SAT JUN 18 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT



* AT 840 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING

  FROM A THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF PANTHER JUNCTION. THE STORM    

  PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.



WEATHER SATELLITE DATA INDICATES ADDITIONAL STORMS OVER NORTHERN 

MEXICO WILL DRIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE AND LIKELY MERGE 

WITH STORMS OVER THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK AROUND 9 PM CDT.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS

OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ACROSS ALREADY FLOODED TERRAIN. 



FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.  HEAVY RAINFALL...EVEN 

FROM DISTANT STORMS...CAN CREATE SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING 

CAMPERS AND HIKERS.  IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW 

WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO 

NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.  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 2909 10348 2900 10311 2977 10266 2950 10345



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