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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

419 PM CDT SAT AUG 2 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  NORTH CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 715 PM CDT



* AT 412 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED

  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTH CENTRAL JEFF

  DAVIS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF KENT...MOVING NORTH

  AT 10 MPH.



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

  AND TEXAS 118 FROM KENT SOUTH TO THE JUNCTION WITH TEXAS 166.



MOTORISTS TRAVELING ALONG TEXAS 118 BETWEEN THE JUNCTION WITH TEXAS 

166 AND INTERSTATE 10 AT KENT SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. 

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. 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 3111 10436 3116 10410 3093 10409 3087 10422



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