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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

353 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHWESTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 700 PM CDT/600 PM MDT/



* AT 252 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE GUADALUPE 

  MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT IS INDICATED. 

  THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED IN EXCESS OF ONE AND A HALF

  INCHES OF RAIN AT GUADALUPE PASS AND THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS

  NATIONAL PARK. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE

  GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF ARROYOS...

  DRAWS. FLASH FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE

  GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK.



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.



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

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.



LAT...LON 3200 10490 3199 10457 3145 10451 3148 10490



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