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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

713 PM MDT TUE OCT 8 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LEA COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM MDT...



AT 707 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO

DETECT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS LEA COUNTY FROM HOBBS WESTWARD.

THE SHOWERS AND STORMS PRODUCING THE RAINFALL WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.



THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN HOBBS REPORTS FLOODING IN THE HOBBS AREA WITH 

VEHICLES STRANDED IN WATER. FLOODING IN RURAL AREAS OUTSIDE OF HOBBS IS 

ALSO POSSIBLE.  RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE AREA THROUGH 730 PM AND 

PROBLEMS WILL LIKELY LAST UNTIL AROUND 9 PM WHEN FLOOD WATERS WILL HAVE 

HAD A CHANCE TO RECEDE. 



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

IN AUTOMOBILES.



LAT...LON 3262 10362 3223 10337 3215 10309 3281 10306

          3300 10309 3295 10350  

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