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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

1045 AM MDT SUN SEP 26 2004



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 230 PM MDT (330 PM CDT) FOR 

CULBERSON AND EDDY COUNTIES...



AT 953 AM MDT (1053 AM CDT)...THE PUBLIC REPORTED TWO AND HALF FEET 

OF WATER COVERING HIGHWAY 137...15 MILES NORTHEAST OF QUEEN.  AT 

1000 AM MDT (1100 AM CDT)...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK REPORTED 

WATER COVERING PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 54 BETWEEN VAN HORN AND GUADALUPE 

MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK. 



AT 1041 AM MDT (1141 AM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 

INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN MOVING NORTH/NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH OVER 

MUCH OF CULBERSON AND EDDY COUNTIES. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS 

OCCURRING WITHIN THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION.    



FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO 

NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



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 3199 10491 3205 10483 3296 10483 3297 10380

      3253 10382 3252 10371 3202 10372 3200 10402

      3113 10410 3070 10490



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