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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

602 PM MDT TUE OCT 8 2002



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO



* UNTIL 900 PM MDT



* AT 602 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS...

  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM NEAR MCDONALD SOUTH TO HOBBS AND 

  EUNICE. AT 6 PM MDT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN HOBBS REPORTED STREET FLOODING.

  WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED THROUGH 7 PM MDT...FLASH FLOODING

  IS LIKELY TO OCCUR IN LEA COUNTY.



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

IN AUTOMOBILES.



LAT...LON 3205 10366 3205 10311 3223 10312 3262 10308

          3329 10310 3330 10367  

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