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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

515 AM MDT TUE MAY 8 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...



* UNTIL 815 AM MDT



* AT 510 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN EDDY COUNTY. THESE

  THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...AND WILL BE

  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...INCLUDING

  CREEKS...STREAMS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IN ADDITION...RUNOFF

  FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE FLOODING ACROSS CENTRAL

  EDDY COUNTY...INCLUDING CARLSBAD. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO

  CARLSBAD...HOPE...ARTESIA...QUEEN...WHITES CITY AND LAKEWOOD.



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



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.



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

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

ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY

CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



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

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



LAT...LON 3252 10481 3250 10483 3201 10483 3203 10390

      3251 10381 3296 10381 3295 10481



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