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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ

215 PM MST TUE AUG 23 2005



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA

  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TONOPAH AND WINTERSBURG



* UNTIL 515 PM MST



* AT 207 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR 

  ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER 

  THE SADDLE MOUNTAIN AREA...SOUTHWEST OF TONOPAH AND WINTERSBURG. 

  EXCESS RUNOFF WILL CAUSE SOME WASHES TO RAPIDLY FILL WITH WATER. 

  SOME WASHES THAT WILL BE EFFECTED INCLUDE OLD CAMP WASH...AT THE 

  CONFLUENCE OF CENTENNIAL WASH. THE INTERSECTION OF WINTERSBURG 

  ROAD AND ELLIOT ROAD...AND SMALL RURAL ROAD IN AND AROUND THE AREA

  WILL BE IMPACTED BY FLOODWATERS.



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO

  WINTERSBURG.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS

SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.



LAT...LON 3344 11264 3356 11299 3327 11323 3310 11266



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