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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

647 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 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 100 AM CDT MONDAY



* AT 644 PM CDT...A DAM FLOODGATE RELEASE FROM THE LUIS           

  LEON RESERVOIR INTO THE RIO CONCHOS IN MEXICO CONTINUED TO RESULT 

  IN ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS THROUGH THE LEVEES DOWNSTREAM ON THE 

  RIO GRANDE AT PRESIDIO. ALTHOUGH THE RELEASE RATE HAS DECREASED...

  ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS THROUGH THE LEVEE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE FOR 

  THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE.



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

  THE COMMUNITY OF REDFORD IS APPROXIMATELY 16 MILES DOWNSTREAM OF

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

  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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