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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

434 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 830 PM CDT



* AT 433 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE

  MONITORING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF 

  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.  THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS

  LOCATED PRIMARILY ALONG THE RIO GRANDE FROM LAJITAS...TO JOHNSON

  RANCH...TO RIO GRANDE VILLAGE.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY

  SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND ARE TRAINING OVER THE SAME

  LOCATIONS.  ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING ACROSS THE BORDER

  IN MEXICO THAT WILL ALSO MOVE INTO BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK...

  FURTHER AGGRAVATING THE FLOOD CONDITIONS.  



* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE

FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

  TERLINGUA...

  STUDY BUTTE...

  CHISOS BASIN...

  TERLINGUA RANCH LODGE...

  PERSIMMON GAP...

  PANTHER JUNCTION...

  COTTONWOOD CAMPGROUND...

  RIO GRANDE VILLAGE...



FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW

WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO ARROYOS... DRAWS... AND OTHER LOW LYING

AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL... EVEN FROM DISTANT STORMS... CAN CREATE

SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. MOVE UP TO

ESCAPE RISING WATER.  IN ADDITION...THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER 

ROCK AND MUDSLIDE IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW.



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

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



LAT...LON 2928 10379 2919 10370 2916 10356 2905 10339

      2900 10318 2924 10292 2975 10268 2988 10236

      3065 10345 3040 10378



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