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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

347 PM CDT THU JUN 18 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  SOUTHERN REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

  EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 845 PM CDT



* AT 345 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED   

  FLASH FLOODING FROM SEVERAL SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. 

  1 HOUR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT CLOSE TO THREE INCHES 

  HAS FALLEN ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF JEFF DAVIS COUNTY. ADDITIONAL 

  HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING WHICH MAY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL 

  AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. 



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

  TOYAH LAKE...TOYAH...SARAGOSA AND BALMORHEA.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



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.



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW

INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



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LAT...LON 3111 10412 3135 10376 3135 10331 3067 10316

      3037 10374 3063 10409



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