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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

836 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT



* AT 835 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE

  MONITORING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 

  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN TERRELL COUNTY.  THIS 

  LINE EXTENDS FROM 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TERRELL GAS PLANT

  TO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE TERRELL GAS PLANT ACROSS THE 

  NORTHERN PORTION OF COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE DRIFTING VERY 

  SLOWLY TO THE NORTH.



* THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE 

FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

  NORTHEASTERN TERRELL COUNTY...

  STATE HIGHWAY 349...

  FM 2400...



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. 



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 2978 10211 2991 10238 3007 10258 3027 10258

      3029 10237 3060 10236 3060 10215 3066 10214

      3064 10167 3062 10165 3050 10167 3041 10174

      3036 10165 3028 10176 2976 10179



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