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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

930 PM MDT SUN MAY 9 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1145 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL LEA

COUNTY...



AT 920 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN LOVINGTON REPORTED 

EXTENSIVE FLOODING IN THE TOWN OF LOVINGTON. 



AT 930 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS...

PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND FLOODING...FROM NEAR LOVINGTON TO 

2 MILES NORTH OF HOBBS. THIS WOULD INCLUDE STATE HIGHWAY 83 FROM 

LOVINGTON EAST TO STATE HIGHWAY 132 AND STATE HIGHWAY 133. IN ADDITION 

THIS WOULD INCLUDE U.S HIGHWAY 82 NORTHEAST OF LOVINGTON. THESE STORMS 

WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH. 



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.



TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL

WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.





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

          3335 10306 3339 10349



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