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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1159 AM CDT TUE AUG 31 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 300 PM CDT



* AT 1154 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED 

  TO DETECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CITY OF

  FORT STOCKTON. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF

  RAIN HAS FALLEN IN FORT STOCKTON OVER THE PAST TWO HOURS. AT 1150

  AM CDT...THE FORT STOCKTON POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT NUMEROUS

  CITY STREETS WERE FLOODING. STORMS OVER CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY ARE 

  NEARLY STATIONARY...AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE

  FLASH FLOODING IN AND NEAR FORT STOCKTON.



FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW

WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO ARROYOS...DRAWS...AND OTHER LOW LYING

AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL...EVEN FROM DISTANT STORMS...CAN CREATE

SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. MOVE UP TO

ESCAPE RISING WATER.



KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM CULVERTS...DITCHES...STORM DRAINS...AND

SWOLLEN CREEKS.



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.



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

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



LAT...LON 3079 10344 3052 10303 3094 10231 3122 10283



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