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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

141 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 630 AM CDT



* AT 136 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN

  PECOS COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR

  COYANOSA...TO FORT STOCKTON...TO MUCH OF RURAL WESTERN PECOS 

  COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE SHOWERS AND

  THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF 

  CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...RURAL ROADS...AS WELL 

  AS URBAN AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS.



* THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE 

  FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

  COYANOSA...

  FORT STOCKTON...

  INTERSTATE 10 WEST OF FORT STOCKTON...

  U.S. HIGHWAYS 67 AND 385 WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN PECOS

COUNTY THROUGH MUCH OF THE EARLY MORNING...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.



LAT...LON 3136 10302 3133 10297 3123 10276 3028 10287

      3077 10358



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