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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

720 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2006



NMC015-170245-

EDDY-

620 PM MDT WED AUG 16 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR

WESTERN EDDY COUNTY...



AT 610 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A HALF FOOT OF 

WATER RUNNING OVER ROCKIN R RED ROAD...OR COUNTY ROAD 21...JUST 

WEST OF LAKEWOOD/SEVEN RIVERS. THERE WAS ALSO ONE HALF FOOT OF WATER

RUNNING OVER MARATHON ROAD...OR COUNTY ROAD 401...ABOUT 12 MILES 

WEST/SOUTHWEST OF LAKEWOOD. 



AT 619 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ARTESIA...SOUTHWARD

TO JUST WEST OF CARLSBAD...AND JUST EAST OF WHITES CITY...MOVING 

SLOWLY EAST AT 10 MPH. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE PRODUCING 

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR. THEREFORE... 

ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED AS THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS 

MOVE THROUGH LAKEWOOD...AVALON...CARLSBAD...AND OTIS.  



AT 625 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED ONE FOOT OF WATER 

RUNNING OVER ROCKIN R RED ROAD...OR COUNTY ROAD 21...7 MILES WEST OF 

LAKEWOOD.



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARTESIA... 

COTTONWOOD...AKEWOOD...AVALON...CARLSBAD...WHITES CITY...OTIS... 

MALAGA...AND RURAL ROADS ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY.  



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

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

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



LAT...LON 3293 10476 3204 10479 3206 10408 3293 10407



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