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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

759 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007



TXC135-040130-

ECTOR-

759 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR

SOUTHEASTERN ECTOR COUNTY...



AT 757 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO

DETECT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO WESTERN

ECTOR COUNTY.  RADAR INDICATES A LARGE AREA OF 1 TO 2 INCH RAINFALL

OCCURRED ACROSS WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ECTOR COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON.  

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE OF FLOODING.  THESE STORMS

WERE LOCATED 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF PENWELL...OR 18 MILES WEST OF WEST

ODESSA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.



THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

LOCATIONS...WEST ODESSA AND ODESSA.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED

ROADS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY

CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



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.



A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING

FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.



LAT...LON 3197 10231 3191 10231 3189 10232 3188 10231

      3167 10231 3169 10264 3198 10265



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