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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

235 PM MDT SAT JUL 21 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...



* UNTIL 730 PM MDT



* AT 227 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED

  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS

  EDDY COUNTY. AT 225 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR HAD ESTIMATED ONE HOUR

  RAINFALL TOTALS EXCEEDING 3 INCHES JUST NORTH OF UNITED STATES

  HIGHWAY 62...180 IN EXTREME EASTERN EDDY COUNTY. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LOCO

  HILLS...CARLSBAD...LAKEWOOD...COTTONWOOD...ATOKA AND ARTESIA



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW

WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS

IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND

IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS... CREEKS... AND OTHER

LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND

PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF

UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.



LAT...LON 3291 10478 3293 10456 3295 10382 3249 10381

      3249 10372 3204 10374 3207 10480

TIME...MOT...LOC 2035Z 180DEG 0KT 3276 10413



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