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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED


FLASH FLOOD WARNING


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX


140 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006





THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A





* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...


  SOUTHERN ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...


  NORTHERN CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...





* UNTIL 445 AM CDT





* AT 137 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED


  A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD ALONG THE ECTOR


  AND CRANE COUNTY LINE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING SLOWLY NORTH


  TOWARD ODESSA...WHILE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER


  CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING


  NEAR TWO INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR.  





* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEST


  ODESSA...PLEASANT FARMS...PENWELL AND ODESSA





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


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


ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.





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 3138 10276 3135 10231 3195 10230 3186 10278


      3168 10278 3165 10276





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