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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1254 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 2009



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

  NORTHWESTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...



* UNTIL 445 PM MDT/545 PM CDT/



* AT 1250 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED 

  FLASH FLOODING FROM A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM OVER THE AREA.  

  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL 

  COMBINED WITH VERY STEEP TERRAIN WILL LEAD TO LOCALIZED

  AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS INCLUDING

  GUADALUPE NATIONAL PARK AND U S 62 180 THROUGH PINE SPRINGS.  



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

  CANYON.



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.



&&



LAT...LON 3196 10493 3199 10493 3200 10492 3200 10457

      3171 10457 3170 10493 3195 10494



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