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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

925 AM CST WED NOV 14 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND-ODESSA HAS ISSUED AN URBAN

AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1225 PM CST WEDNESDAY

MORNING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN WEST TEXAS

     EASTERN HOWARD AND WESTERN MITCHELL



AT 920 AM CST (820 AM MST) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER 

OVER THE ROADWAY ON HIGHWAY 350...6 MILES EAST OF BIG SPRING. THIS

SECTION OF HIGHWAY 350 HAS BEEN BARRICATED. STREETS IN THE CITY OF 

BIG SPRING WERE REPORTED TO HAVE AREAS OF HIGH WATER BUT STILL 

PASSABLE AT THIS TIME. 



AT 920 AM CST THUNDERSTORMS WITH RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES

PER HOUR WERE AFFECTING THE WESTERN HALF OF MITCHELL COUNTY.

THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST 1130 AM AND 

WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLOODING IN THAT COUNTY. IN ADDITION MORE 

THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING LOCAL FLOODING... WAS MOVING BACK INTO 

EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY...NEAR AND EAST OF BIG SPRING.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS

AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS

AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.



DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS 

FLOWING WATER IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.  DO NOT DRIVE AROUND POLICE 

BARRICADES.



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