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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

738 PM MDT FRI AUG 24 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...



* UNTIL 1045 PM MDT



* AT 734 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY 

  RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY...NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF

  JAL. RADAR AND SATELLITE DATA ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 2 INCHES OF

  RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THESE LOCATIONS SINCE 615 PM MDT. THE JAL

  POLICE DEPARTMENT INDICATED THAT FLOODING WAS BEGINNING TO OCCUR

  IN JAL...AND WERE BEGINNING TO BLOCK OFF ROADS IN TOWN.



* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

  LOCATIONS...

  JAL...

  STATE HIGHWAY 18 IN SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY...

  STATE HIGHWAY 128 IN SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY...



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. MOTORISTS SHOULD NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS A FLOODED OR

POLICE BARRICADED ROADWAY. THE SAFEST COURSE OF ACTION...TURN 

AROUND...DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 3234 10307 3200 10306 3200 10335 3223 10340

TIME...MOT...LOC 0138Z 276DEG 7KT 3209 10319



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