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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

842 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE RIO GRANDE BELOW THE RIO CONCHOS IN...

  PRESIDIO COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS.



* UNTIL 245 AM CDT WEDNESDAY



* AT 838 PM CDT...MAJOR FLOODING CONTINUED FROM PRESIDIO DOWNSTREAM   

  THROUGH REDFORD...AND ALONG FM 170 FROM PRESIDIO TO LAJITAS.  WATER 

  RELEASES FROM LUIS LEON RESERVOIR ARE SLOWLY DECREASING BUT ARE 

  EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.  WITH ELEVATED 

  FLOWS CONTINUING THROUGH THE LEVEE SYSTEM...THE POSSIBILITY OF 

  LEVEE FAILURE WITHOUT WARNING CONTINUES. 



* THE NEAREST DOWNSTREAM TOWN LOCATED ALONG THE LEVEES IS PRESIDIO.

  THE COMMUNITY OF REDFORD IS APPROXIMATELY 16 MILES DOWNSTREAM OF

  THE LEVEE SYSTEM AND IS ALSO IN IMMINENT DANGER.  IF YOU ARE IN 

  LOW LYING AREAS NEAR OR BELOW THE LEVEES YOU SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER

  GROUND IMMEDIATELY.  FOLLOW EVACUATION INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY 

  YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS 

  FLOODED ROADWAYS.



LAT...LON 2940 10418 2943 10419 2944 10421 2950 10425

      2952 10436 2957 10442 2967 10431 2948 10405

      2938 10415



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