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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

337 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 830 AM CDT



* AT 336 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED

  A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN

  BREWSTER...SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PECOS...AND WESTERN TERRELL 

  COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF 

  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. MANY OF THESE LOCATIONS RECEIVED

  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL LAST NIGHT...AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL

  INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING. THE

  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.



* THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING

  LOCATIONS...

  BAKERSFIELD...

  SHEFFIELD...

  IRAAN...

  SANDERSON...

  DRYDEN...

  THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...

  PERSIMMON GAP...

  BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK...

  PANTHER JUNCTION...

  RIO GRANDE VILLAGE...  

   

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.



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 2908 10350 3033 10299 3027 10286 3123 10274

      3105 10230 3095 10193 3067 10179 2980 10178

      2980 10210 2987 10233 2979 10237 2971 10269

      2954 10279 2939 10282 2935 10287 2922 10289

      2918 10298 2912 10301 2898 10320



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