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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

843 AM CDT THU OCT 13 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 1045 AM CDT



* AT 840 AM CDT...LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM THIS  

  MORNING/S HEAVY RAINFALL HAS RESULTED IN NEARLY A FOOT OF WATER    

  OVER THE INTERSTATE 20 FRONTAGE ROADS WEST OF ODESSA. ALTHOUGH THE 

  RAINFALL WILL SUBSIDE OVER ECTOR COUNTY BY 930 AM CDT...NATIONAL   

  WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 4       

  INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG INTERSTATE 20 IN ECTOR COUNTY THIS 

  MORNING. RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO POSE A THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING   

  THROUGH THE LATE MORNING HOURS.



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

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

ROADS.  



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 

ROADWAY. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 3167 10279 3167 10232 3206 10231 3206 10277



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