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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

740 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

  NORTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT



* AT 736 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  BANDS OF HEAVY RAIN SLOWLY MOVING NORTH TO NORTHWEST AT 5 TO 10

  MPH ACROSS MUCH OF HOWARD AND NORTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTIES. RADAR

  ESTIMATES THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS

  OVER 3 INCHES...HAS FALLEN ACROSS LOCATIONS FROM BIG SPRING TO 

  GARDEN CITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL 

  HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY THROUGH AT LEAST 9 PM CDT.



* THE HEAVY RAINS BANDS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

  BIG SPRING...

  COAHOMA...  

  FORSAN...

  LUTHER...

  VINCENT...

  GARDEN CITY...



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING 

OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS... URBAN AREAS... HIGHWAYS... STREETS 

AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY IN STORM RUNOFF. CULVERTS... DITCHES...

STORM DRAINS... SWOLLEN CREEKS AND ALL OTHER AREAS WHERE RAPID WATER

FLOW IS OBSERVED ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. CHILDREN CAN BE EASILY

SWEPT AWAY AND DROWN IN MOMENTS. STORM RUNOFF CAN ALSO CONTAIN

DANGEROUS CHEMICALS THAT MAY BE HARMFUL IF CONTACTED OR SWALLOWED.



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW

INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



LAT...LON 3209 10118 3209 10125 3183 10127 3183 10179

      3209 10177 3209 10170 3250 10169 3251 10119

TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 184DEG 6KT 3229 10143



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