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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1026 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  LOVING COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

  REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 230 PM CDT



* AT 1022 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE 

  WATCHING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY 

  HEAVY RAINFALL.  THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE

  EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTH OF MENTONE TO 26 MILES NORTHWEST 

  OF FORT DAVIS AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.



* THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

LOCATIONS...

  MENTONE...

  TOYAH...

  INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN KENT AND PECOS...



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



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 3200 10400 3151 10404 3111 10409 3078 10358

      3135 10305 3143 10349 3162 10353 3167 10367

      3167 10336 3198 10334



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