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TXC317-020730-



BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1128 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 230 AM CDT



* AT 1124 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS 

  DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS 

  MUCH OF MARTIN COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OCCURING ACROSS

  THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...NEAR BUFORD AND TARZAN. RADAR

  ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN SINCE 1015

  PM ALONG FARM TO MARKET ROADS 829 AND 2002. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS

  WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF MARTIN COUNTY.

  THE HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF DRAWS...RURAL

  ROADS...AND LOW LYING AREAS.



* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

  LOCATIONS...

  BUFORD...

  LENORAH...

  TARZAN...

  FARM TO MARKET ROADS 829 AND 2002...

  STATE HIGHWAY 137...



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

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

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



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.



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 3234 10168 3232 10170 3210 10170 3209 10176

      3209 10220 3252 10220 3251 10170 3250 10170

TIME...MOT...LOC 0428Z 328DEG 13KT 3231 10192



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