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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

230 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007



TXC003-135-021030-

ANDREWS-ECTOR-

230 AM CDT THU AUG 2 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR

EASTERN ECTOR AND SOUTHEASTERN ANDREWS COUNTIES...



...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...



AT 210 AM CDT...THE ODESSA POLICE DEPARTEMENT REPORTED FLASH 

FLOODING AND HIGH WATER RESCUES OCCURRING AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF 

DIXIE AND 36TH STREET...DIXIE AND 52ND STREET...DIXIE AND 

UNIVERSITY...AND ESMUND AND 52ND.



AT 224 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

DETECT A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR 

NOTREES AND GOLDSMITH...TO WEST ODESSA AND ODESSA...SOUTHWARD TO 

NEAR PLEASANT FARMS. OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS EXTENDED FROM FLOREY 

TO ANDREWS. MOVEMENT IS TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH.



TRAVEL IS HIGHLY DISCOURAGED THIS MORNING AS IT WILL TAKE HOURS FOR 

THE WATER TO RECEDE.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED 

ROADS. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODING. 



LAT...LON 3229 10263 3230 10221 3208 10221 3209 10229

      3176 10230 3176 10236 3175 10264

TIME...MOT...LOC 0725Z 180DEG 0KT 3191 10238



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