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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1005 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHEASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 300 AM CDT



* AT 949 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   

  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF TERRELL COUNTY   

  NORTH OF HIGHWAY 90.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE TERRELL

  GAS PLANT...SHEFFIELD...SANDERSON...LONGFELLOW AND IRAAN



THE HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE IRAAN AND SHEFFIELD AREAS 

HOWEVER IT STILL WILL TAKE SOME TIME FOR THE WATER TO RUNOFF. MANY 

LOW WATER CROSSINGS STILL HAVE WATER RUNNING THROUGH THEM IN PECOS 

COUNTY...ESPECIALLY TRIBUTARIES TO THE PECOS RIVER AND SOME ROADS 

MAY STILL BE IMPASSABLE.



THE STORMS ACROSS TERRELL COUNTY ARE SLOW MOVING AND HAVE ESTIMATED  

LOCAL RAINFALL RATES NEAR 2 INCHES AN HOUR. FLOODING AND FLASH 

FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG FM 2400 AND HIGHWAY 349 ARE 

POSSIBLE. 

 

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.



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 3047 10167 3043 10172 3034 10164 3033 10172

      3028 10175 2979 10175 2983 10221 3016 10269

      3101 10210 3099 10198 3093 10188 3071 10180

      3067 10175 3065 10168 3057 10163



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