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WGUS74 KMAF 142126

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

423 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007



TXC109-150000-

CULBERSON-

423 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT/600 PM

MDT/ FOR NORTHWESTERN CULBERSON COUNTY...



AT 421 PM CDT...A PARK RANGER REPORTED WATER RUNNING OVER PORTIONS 

OF HIGHWAY 62/180 THROUGH GUADALUPE PASS.  IN ADDITION...THE HEAVY 

RAINFALL RESULTED IN SEVERAL BOULDERS BEING DISLODGED...WHICH WERE 

ON HIGHWAY 62/180 IN GUADALUPE PASS.  AT 421 PM CDT...NATIONAL 

WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 

HEAVY RAINFALL IN AND NEAR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.  THESE STORMS 

WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. 



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PINE SPRINGS



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.



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.



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



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