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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

715 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT



* AT 707 PM CDT...LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH

  FLOODING FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST CRANE COUNTY. ONE

  FOOT OF WATER WAS REPORTED FLOWING OVER U.S. HIGHWAY 385 14 MILES 

  NORTH OF CRANE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONGOING

  ACROSS THE COUNTY SO ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.



MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS

DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED

ROADS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY

AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. 



TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN



LAT...LON 3138 10274 3111 10232 3164 10232 3164 10275



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