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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

245 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 645 PM CDT



* AT 242 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF UPTON 

  COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT THIS LINE OF STORMS MAY QUICKLY 

  PRODUCE BETWEEN ONE AND ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN. EXCESSIVE

  RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF

  CREEKS...STREAMS...BAR DITCHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...CITY STREETS

  AND LOW LYING AREAS. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MIDKIFF...

  RANKIN...MCCAMEY...STATE HIGHWAY 329...U.S. HIGHWAY 67...AND STATE

  HIGHWAY 349. 



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.



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW

INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



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

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



LAT...LON 3111 10230 3109 10177 3164 10178 3165 10229



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