Flash Flood Warning
Issued by NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1010 PM CDT THU MAY 23 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* AT 1003 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OVER ONE INCH PER HOUR OVER
  MUCH OF GLASSCOCK AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. FLASH FLOODING IS
  POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...ESPECIALLY ALONG HIGHWAY 158 FROM
  GARDEN CITY EAST TO THE STERLING COUNTY LINE...AND IN COLORADO
  CITY SOUTH ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 163 AND ALONG STATE ROAD 208
  IN SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LAKE
  COLORADO CITY...COLORADO CITY AIRPORT...CHAMPION CREEK RESERVOIR...
  WESTBROOK...VALLEY VIEW...LORAINE...CUTHBERT...COLORADO CITY...
  BUFORD AND GARDEN CITY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 3208 10118 3167 10126 3166 10176 3199 10168
      3207 10156 3207 10125 3209 10118 3252 10116
      3252 10066 3208 10067

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