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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM

1155 PM MDT WED AUG 4 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO



* UNTIL 200 AM MDT



* AT 1150 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  HEAVY RAIN 30 MILES NORTH OF BITTER LAKE WILDLIFE REFUGE...OR ABOUT

  36 MILES NORTH OF ROSWELL...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.



* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DEXTER...ELKINS...ROSWELL

  AND HAGERMAN



THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES ROUTES 70 AND 380 IN EASTERN CHAVES 

COUNTY...WHERE HEAVY RAIN FELL EARLIER THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS

PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL ONCE AGAIN MOVE OVER THESE AREAS BETWEEN

MIDNIGHT AND 200 AM MDT. THE ROSWELL AREA CAN EXPECT A BOUT OF

HEAVY RAIN WITH SOME STREET FLOODING POSSIBLE.



DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH

FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.



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

DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.



LAT...LON 3397 10478 3379 10475 3297 10495 3300 10377

      3358 10374 3359 10350 3364 10350 3365 10375

      3382 10373 3382 10387 3407 10387 3399 10419

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