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TXC043-130315-



BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

811 PM CDT MON MAY 12 2003



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT



* AT 811 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS

  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 5 MILES SOUTH OF MARATHON...MOVING   

  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY

  RAIN WERE LOCATED ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 90 20 MILES EAST OF

  MARATHON...AND 20 MILES SOUTH OF ALPINE...WEST OF STATE HIGHWAY

  118.



JUST AFTER 800 PM...STORM SPOTTERS AND TEXAS DPS REPORTED A FOOT 

OF WATER RUNNING OVER U.S. HIGHWAY 80 25 MILES EAST OF ALPINE...OR 

ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MARATHON.  

  

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

IN AUTOMOBILES.  BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT 

TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.



LAT...LON 3017 10379 2988 10357 2979 10318 3013 10271

          3043 10313 3038 10352



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