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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

853 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT



* AT 852 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    

  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING 12 MILES         

  NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS...AND ANOTHER HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING         

  THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES WEST OF FORT DAVIS. BOTH THUNDERSTORMS WERE  

  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  



FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW 

WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO ARROYOS...DRAWS...AND OTHER LOW LYING 

AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL...EVEN FROM DISTANT STORMS...CAN CREATE SUDDEN 

FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE 

RISING WATER.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



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

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



LAT...LON 3062 10469 3054 10436 3044 10383 3068 10352

      3105 10409



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