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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX

400 PM CDT SUN SEP 26 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS



* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT



* AT 355 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER

  OVER THE ROADWAY AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 62/180 AND COUNTY

  ROAD 237.  LAW ENFORCEMENT HAD REPORTED A VEHICLE HAD WASHED INTO

  THE MEDIAN AT THIS LOCATION. AT 4 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

  NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF GAINES COUNTY...MOVING

  NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF OVER ONE INCH PER HOUR CAN BE 

  EXPECTED THROUGH 530 PM CDT ACROSS WESTERN GAINES COUNTY...WITH 

  THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LIKELY ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS. 



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

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

ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.



TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL

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



LAT...LON 3258 10302 3255 10266 3257 10224 3293 10224

      3293 10267 3291 10304



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