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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

453 PM CDT MON SEP 8 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  SOUTHEASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 745 PM CDT



* AT 442 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWESTERN 

  BREWSTER COUNTY AND SOUTHEASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY...IN ADDITION TO 

  MORE SHOWERS AND STORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN CHIHUAHUA IN

  MEXICO. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE

  AS THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH...

  RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING. SINCE FLOWS ON THE RIO GRANDE ARE 

  ALREADY HIGH...RUNOFF FROM CREEKS AND TRIBUTARIES WILL LIKELY 

  RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLOODING.   



* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

  LOCATIONS...

  PRESIDIO...

  LAJITAS...

  CASTOLON...

  BIG BEND RANCH STATE PARK...

  BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK...



FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW

WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO ARROYOS...DRAWS...AND OTHER LOW LYING

AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL...EVEN FROM DISTANT STORMS...CAN CREATE

SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. MOVE UP TO

ESCAPE RISING WATER.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY.



LAT...LON 2925 10380 2927 10383 2927 10386 2934 10404

      2946 10423 2950 10425 2951 10431 2957 10441

      2979 10418 2948 10297 2899 10315



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