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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

500 AM CDT MON AUG 18 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 800 AM CDT



* AT 455 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  HEAVY RAIN AND POTENTIAL FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR   

  PENWELL...OR  8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEST ODESSA...MOVING            

  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.



* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

  LOCATIONS...

  PLEASANT FARMS...

  ODESSA...

  WEST ODESSA...

  INTERSTATE 20 IN ECTOR COUNTY...



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND 

UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.



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. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 3200 10269 3201 10231 3166 10233 3167 10279



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