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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

341 PM CDT WED JUN 17 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EXTREME WEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 745 PM CDT



* AT 338 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   

  FLASH FLOODING FROM SEVERAL SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING       

  ACROSS THE REGION.  DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE 

  THAT OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN WITHIN THE PAST HOUR.        

  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTH WHICH MAY     

  LEAD TO MORE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND ADDITIONAL AREAS OF     

  FLASH FLOODING. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TOYAVALE...

  SARAGOSA AND BALMORHEA.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL

FOR FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF

FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



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.



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LAT...LON 3102 10412 3112 10350 3061 10352 3050 10394



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