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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

640 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EASTERN CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

  UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 930 PM CDT



* AT 631 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS SITUATED OVER UPTON AND EASTERN CRANE

  COUNTIES CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THESE STORMS HAVE 

  SHOWN VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT AND RAINFALL TOTALS OF OVER 2 INCHES 

  CAN BE EXPECTED. FLOODING OF CITY STREETS IN CRANE...MCCAMEY... 

  AND RANKING CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MOTORISTS 

  TRAVELING SHOULD AVOID WATER COVERED ROADWAYS.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MIDKIFF



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW

WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



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 3113 10242 3122 10243 3127 10253 3165 10249

      3165 10177 3109 10178 3110 10238

TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 180DEG 0KT 3145 10211



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