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NMC025-100545-



BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

843 PM MDT SUN MAY 9 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO



* UNTIL 1145 PM MDT



* AT 838 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED

  A CLUSTER OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL

  FROM NEAR MCDONALD TO HOBBS...INCLUDING STATE HIGHWAY 206...STATE

  HIGHWAY 83 NEAR LOVINGTON...AND HIGHWAY 180...13 MILES WEST OF

  HOBBS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH.

  



* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...

  LOVINGTON...HOBBS...KNOWLES...RURAL EASTERN LEA COUNTY.



TO REPORT FLOODING... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST

OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... LOW WATER CROSSINGS...

NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY.

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



LAT...LON 3256 10359 3245 10311 3263 10308 3284 10308

          3334 10308 3339 10349



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