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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

242 PM CDT TUE SEP 21 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 545 PM CDT



* AT 235 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED

  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEAR 

  VERHALEN TO BALMORHEA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 3 INCHES OR MORE

  OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN REEVES COUNTY.

  THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH.



IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS

FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF

FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



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

SWOLLEN CREEKS.



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.



TO REPORT FLOODING...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE

IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.



LAT...LON 3110 10410 3079 10355 3135 10310 3144 10407



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