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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1045 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 2008



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ANDREWS-ECTOR-

1045 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 2008



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR

NORTHWESTERN ECTOR AND SOUTHEASTERN ANDREWS COUNTIES...



AT 1029 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS

DETECTED BY RADAR NEAR NOTREES...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF 

ODESSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.



RADAR ESTIMATES OF 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL SATURDAY EVENING

OVER NORTHWESTERN ECTOR COUNTY BETWEEN NOTREES AND GOLDSMITH...

NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF TEXAS 158...TEXAS 302...AND TEXAS 181. 

OVER SOUTHEASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY...RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN 3 TO 4 

INCHES OF RAIN FELL SOUTH OF TEXAS 176 AND EAST OF FM 1788. WITH 

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OCCURRING OVER EASTERN WINKLER 

AND NORTHWESTERN ECTOR COUNTIES...AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF 

RAINFALL IS LIKELY OVER THE WARNED AREA.  FLASH FLOODING OF 

DRAWS...PLAYAS...BAR DITCHES...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF 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 TAKES ONLY 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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