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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

509 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008



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PECOS-TERRELL-BREWSTER-

509 AM CDT FRI SEP 12 2008



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR

EASTERN BREWSTER...TERRELL AND EASTERN PECOS COUNTIES...



AT 507 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO

DETECT A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN TERRELL

COUNTY.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES WEST OF THE TERRELL GAS 

PLANT...OR 19 MILES NORTH OF DRYDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED

ROADS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY

CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.



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.



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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