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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT

550 PM MDT MON OCT 9 2006



UTC015-017-025-055-100200-

GARFIELD UT-WAYNE UT-EMERY UT-KANE UT-

550 PM MDT MON OCT 9 2006



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR

EASTERN KANE...SOUTHERN EMERY...WAYNE AND GARFIELD COUNTIES...



AT 550 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 

INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WARNING 

AREA. SOME OF THESE HEAVIER SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE PRODUCING FLASH 

FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN THE SLOT CANYONS.



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GREEN

RIVER...TORREY...TEASDALE...LOA...HANKSVILLE...CAPITOL REEF NP AND 

BICKNELL.



THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OFF TO THE EAST 

OF THE WARNING AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL 

EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON COMBINED WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EARLY THIS 

EVENING WILL KEEP MANY OF THE SMALL STREAMS AND WASHES RUNNING FAST 

AND HEAVY ACROSS THE WARNING AREA THROUGH 800 PM THIS EVENING.



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.



LAT...LON 3753 11229 3701 11219 3701 11136 3716 11111

      3750 11071 3790 11040 3817 10994 3856 11009

      3890 11019 3900 11017 3901 11129 3848 11129

      3848 11178 3808 11178 3809 11238



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