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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

425 PM CDT TUE SEP 21 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR REEVES 

COUNTY...



AT 315 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED EXTENSIVE 

FLOODING NEAR MILE MARKER 214 ON INTERSTATE 10 NEAR SARAGOSA.  AT 

417 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

DETECT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF 

REEVES COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH 

LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS...HAS ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN  

REEVES COUNTY...FROM NEAR VERHALEN...TO NEAR BALMORHEA.



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW 

WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE 

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



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

SWOLLEN CREEKS.



EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS

AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES

IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



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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