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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1044 PM MDT SAT SEP 4 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 AM MDT FOR LEA COUNTY...



AT 1010 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED STREET 

FLOODING IN THE CITY OF HOBBS. AT 1039 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER 

SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS AND 

THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR HOBBS...SOUTH TO NEAR JAL...MOVING EAST AT 

30 MPH. 



ALTHOUGH THE HEAVY RAINFALL IS COMING TO AN END...RUNOFF FROM THE 

EARLIER HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND 

LOW LYING AREAS...PARTICULARLY IN AND NEAR HOBBS.



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.



LAT...LON 3206 10365 3201 10307 3351 10309 3355 10364



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