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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1023 PM CDT THU MAY 20 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 300 AM CDT



* AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED   

  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WESTERN PECOS 

  COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELDING. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 

  UP TO THREE INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS OF RAIN HAS ALREADY

  FALLEN OVER THIS AREA SINCE EARLIER THIS EVENING.  



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

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

FLASH FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCUR ALONG THE COYANOSA DRAW...AND ALONG U.S.

HIGHWAY 67. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



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 3078 10358 3041 10312 3070 10287 3117 10318



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