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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

622 PM CDT FRI JUL 19 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 900 PM CDT



* AT 619 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS

  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 26 MILES NORTH OF PERSIMMON GAP...OR

  ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF MARATHON.  THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS

  NEARLY STATIONARY.



* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...

  PERSIMMON GAP AND HEATH CANYON.



DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR

IN AUTOMOBILES.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. DO NOT

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER

IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.



FLOODING IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. HEAVY

RAINFALL...EVEN IN THE DISTANT...CAN CREATE SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF

OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW



WATER WILL RAPIDLY FILL NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS AND DRAWS. CAMPERS AND 

HIKERS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW



LAT...LON 2979 10277 2952 10281 2927 10298 2950 10316

          2968 10331 3005 10341 3020 10322 3017 10296  

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