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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

906 AM CDT SUN SEP 26 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 300 PM CDT



* AT 855 AM CDT...THE FORT DAVIS FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLASH

  FLOODING OCCURRING OVER PORTIONS OF RURAL JEFF DAVIS COUNTY.

  FLOODING IS LOCATED GENERALLY 13 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS AND 10

  MILES WEST OF MCDONALD OBSERVATORY. 



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.



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 OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL

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



LAT...LON 3063 10495 3066 10494 3110 10412 3067 10345

      3041 10380 3041 10390



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