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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

501 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 800 PM CDT



* AT 454 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT STOCKTON...MOVING   

  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP 

  BEHIND THIS INITIAL STORM THAT WILL INCREASE THE FLASH FLOODING 

  POTENTIAL.



* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE

FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

  FORT STOCKTON...

  US HIGHWAY 285 JUST SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...

  US HIGHWAY 385 JUST SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...

  INTERSTATE 10...

  STATE HIGHWAY 18 NORTH AND SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEES HAVE REPORTED 2 INCHES OF RUNNING

WATER ON STATE HIGHWAY 18 JUST NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON.  EXCESSIVE 

RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

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

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



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF

FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



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 3112 10299 3111 10281 3071 10273 3079 10303

TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 333DEG 8KT 3086 10286



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