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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

615 PM MST SAT APR 3 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

  LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO



* UNTIL 915 PM MST(1015 PM CST)



AT 610 PM MST OR 710 PM CST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN GAINES 

COUNTY CONTINUED TO REPORT HIGHWAY 214 CLOSED FROM DENVER CITY 

TO SEMINOLE. IN ADDITION HIGHWAY 62/180 FROM THE STATE LINE TO 

9 MILES WEST OF SEMINOLE CONTINUED TO BE REPORTED CLOSED DUE 

TO FLOODING. 



AT 610 PM MST OR 710 PM CST THE LEA COUNTY SHERIFF HAD REPORTED 

HIGHWAY 18 CLOSED FROM HOBBS TO EUNICE AND HIGHWAY 8 CLOSED FROM 

MONUMENT TO OIL CENTER.

 

AT 615 PM MST OR 715 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS...VERY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 

FLASH FLOODING ACROSS WESTERN GAINES AND LEA COUNTIES. THESE 

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLASH FLOODING.



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW

WATER CROSSINGS...AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS

IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND

IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS...CREEKS...AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND

PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF

UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.



LAT...LON 3206 10372 3206 10315 3232 10316 3241 10316

          3252 10319 3261 10308 3256 10286 3259 10262

          3291 10262 3295 10313 3313 10314 3346 10315

          3353 10368



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