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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

942 AM CDT FRI JUL 25 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 145 PM CDT



* AT 932 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   

  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS   

  OVER THE WARNED AREA.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HOVEY...   

  FORT STOCKTON AND BELDING...GENERALLY COVERING THE AREA BETWEEN    

  INTERSTATE 10 IN PECOS COUNTY TO HIGHWAY 90 IN BREWSTER COUNTY.  



RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS THIS AREA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON AND 

WITH RAINFALL RATES NEAR 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR LOCAL RAINFALL TOTALS 

NEAR 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE.



EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS

AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES

IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 3046 10368 3067 10342 3077 10357 3107 10330

      3091 10238 3031 10239 3028 10259 3006 10259

      2986 10232 2976 10239 2977 10250 2975 10252

      2975 10258 2971 10269



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