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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

335 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

  MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 430 PM CDT



* AT 334 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE

  MONITORING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE 

  EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF DERMOTT TO DUNN TO 16 MILES 

  SOUTH OF WESTBROOK AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.



* THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

LOCATIONS...

  SNYDER...

  CHINA GROVE...

  COLORADO CITY...

  HERMLEIGH...

  MIDWAY...

  INADALE...

  HUDD...

  LORAINE...



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS... URBAN AREAS... HIGHWAYS... STREETS AND

UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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 3295 10116 3252 10117 3210 10116 3209 10068

      3252 10068 3295 10067



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