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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1211 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 415 AM CDT



* AT 1206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED  

  A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN LIKELY RESULTING IN FLASH 

  FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO            

  KNOTT...STATE ROUTE 176 WEST OF BIG SPRING...INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN 

  STANTON AND BIG SPRING.



THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH THE COUNTY RESULTING IN FLOODING 

AND FLASH FLOODING IN BIG SPRING...FAIRVIEW...ELBOW...AND 

SURROUNDING AREAS.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLOODING. 



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 3251 10167 3251 10119 3210 10119 3210 10168

      3233 10168

TIME...MOT...LOC 0511Z 180DEG 0KT 3227 10167



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