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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

957 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

  NORTHWESTERN ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 1245 AM CDT



* AT 948 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED

  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM NEAR NOTREES

  NORTHEAST TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANDREWS.  THESE STORMS

  ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. 



* THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER

  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.



RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL SATURDAY

EVENING BETWEEN NOTREES AND GOLDSMITH IN NORTHWESTERN ECTOR 

COUNTY...AND ALSO EAST OF FM 1788 OVER SOUTHEASTERN ANDREWS 

COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL

RESULT IN FLOODING OF BAR DITCHES...DRAWS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...

AND OTHER AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLASH FLOODING.



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 3241 10222 3213 10223 3177 10277 3202 10278



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