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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

623 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT



* AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   

  FLASH FLOODING FROM A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM OVER THE      

  CHISOS BASIN AREA OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS    

  FALLING WITH THIS STORM...LIKELY LEADING TO LOCALIZED AREAS OF     

  FLASH FLOODING. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TERLINGUA

  RANCH LODGE...TERLINGUA...STUDY BUTTE...PANTHER JUNCTION AND CHISOS

  BASIN.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW

WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO ARROYOS... DRAWS... AND OTHER LOW LYING

AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL... EVEN FROM DISTANT STORMS... CAN CREATE

SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. MOVE UP TO

ESCAPE RISING WATER.



EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS

AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES

IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS

IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND

IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS... CREEKS... AND OTHER

LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND

PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF

UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.



&&



LAT...LON 2898 10320 2898 10329 2902 10333 2906 10348

      2914 10354 2916 10364 2955 10361 2954 10292

      2918 10296 2918 10298 2912 10301 2908 10307

      2900 10311 2897 10315



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