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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

924 PM CDT WED SEP 24 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS EXTENDED THE



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

  PRESIDIO COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS.



* UNTIL 330 AM CDT THURSDAY



* AT 920 PM CDT...A DAM FLOODGATE RELEASE ALONG THE RIO CONCHOS IN 

  MEXICO CONTINUES TO AFFECT THE LEVEES ON THE RIO GRANDE AT PRESIDIO.  

  RELEASES CONTINUE TO DECREASE...HOWEVER ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS WILL 

  CONTINUE THROUGH THE LEVEE SYSTEM.



* THE NEAREST DOWNSTREAM TOWN FROM THE CONFLUENCE OF THE RIO CONCHOS 

  AND RIO GRANDE 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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