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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

227 AM CDT THU OCT 13 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

  NORTHERN PRESIDIO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 530 AM CDT



* AT 221 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED

  A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.

  THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF KENT...TO NEAR

  MCDONALD OBSERVATORY AND FORT DAVIS...TO NEAR MARFA...TO EAST 

  OF CANDELARIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20

  MPH.



* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

  FORT DAVIS...

  VALENTINE...

  MCDONALD OBSERVATORY...

  MARFA...

 

STATE HIGHWAYS 17...118 AND 166...AND U.S. HIGHWAYS 67 AND 90 WILL 

BE IMPACTED.



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW

WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



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. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF

FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS

AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES

IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



TO REPORT FLOODING... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE

IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.



LAT...LON 3026 10468 2971 10455 3000 10380 3041 10381

      3056 10360 3069 10349 3085 10371 3108 10412

      3077 10470



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