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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1025 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT



* AT 1018 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ALTUDA AND 

  ALPINE...HIGHWAYS 118 AND 67 NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF ALPINE         

  INCLUDING DRAINAGES IN THE VICINITY.



ADDITIONAL STORMS MAY MOVE INTO SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY AND 

THE ALPINE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST. THIS AREA HAS ALREADY RECEIVED 

HEAVY RAIN AND ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL GENERATE RUNOFF QUICKLY AND 

FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE.



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 3056 10379 3075 10359 3029 10294 2985 10344

      2985 10377



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