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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1156 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 300 AM CDT



* AT 1153 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED  

  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM AT ALAMITO CREEK. RAINFALL HAS  

  ENDED...HOWEVER ALAMITO CREEK IS IN FLOOD DUE TO RECENT HEAVY      

  RAINS.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHAFTER AND

  CASA PIEDRA AND ALAMITO CREEK. 



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.



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. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF

FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



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 2986 10432 2987 10380 2929 10380 2933 10402

      2940 10415 2949 10420 2955 10433



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