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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

325 AM CDT TUE SEP 9 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 715 AM CDT



* AT 319 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY

  RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS AND 

  THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 TO

  10 MPH. AT 318 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT  IN ALPINE REPORTED 

  2 FEET OF WATER CROSSING U.S. HIGHWAY 90 ON THE WEST SIDE OF ALPINE.

  AT 315 AM CDT...THE LOCAL RADIO STATION IN ALPINE REPORTED THAT 

  1.72 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SO FAR EARLY THIS MORNING. 



* THE STORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

  LOCATIONS...

  ALPINE...

  U.S. HIGHWAY 90 IN NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY...

  U.S. HIGHWAY 67 NORTHEAST OF ALPINE...

  STATE HIGHWAY 118 NEAR AND NORTH OF ALPINE...



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF

FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



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 3066 10345 3034 10300 3021 10378 3040 10379



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