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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

538 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...



* UNTIL 845 PM MDT



* AT 518 PM MDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED STREET FLOODING IN THE

  CITY OF ARTESIA...WHERE SOME LOCAL STREETS HAD 1 FOOT OF WATER

  ON THE ROAD. AT 508 PM MDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH

  FLOODING ON ROCKY ARROYO...AT THE INTERSECTION OF STATE HIGHWAY

  137 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 285...APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF

  CARLSBAD. AT 536 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 

  CONTINUED TO DETECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING MUCH OF

  EDDY COUNTY. WHILE MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAIN HAS MOVED INTO 

  NORTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINS

  WILL CONTINUE TO AGGRAVATE FLOODING ACROSS EDDY COUNTY THROUGH

  845 PM MDT.



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

  RIVERS...LOCO HILLS...LAKEWOOD...COTTONWOOD...DAYTON...ATOKA AND

  ARTESIA



DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY IN STORM RUNOFF. CULVERTS... DITCHES...

STORM DRAINS... SWOLLEN CREEKS AND ALL OTHER AREAS WHERE RAPID WATER

FLOW IS OBSERVED ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. CHILDREN CAN BE EASILY

SWEPT AWAY AND DROWN IN MOMENTS. STORM RUNOFF CAN ALSO CONTAIN

DANGEROUS CHEMICALS THAT MAY BE HARMFUL IF CONTACTED OR SWALLOWED.



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.



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

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY.



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

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



LAT...LON 3224 10483 3204 10382 3294 10381 3295 10477



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