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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

749 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EAST CENTRAL CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  SOUTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  NORTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT



* AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF KENT...OR 

  40 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.



* THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE 

  FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

  TOYAVALE...

  BALMORHEA...

  KENT...

  INTERSTATE 10 FROM THE PLATEAU TRUCK STOP TO BALMORHEA...

  INTERSTATE 10 FROM THE SPLIT NORTHEAST TO MILE MARKER 15...

  TEXAS 118 FROM KENT SOUTH TO THE INTERSECTION WITH TEXAS 166...



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...

LOW WATER CROSSINGS...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 3097 10440 3132 10443 3138 10408 3097 10340

      3095 10343 3093 10343 3060 10375



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