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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ

335 PM MST MON JUL 23 2007



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PIMA AZ-

335 PM MST MON JUL 23 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM MST FOR

NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY...



AT 330 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE 

STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS OVER MARANA...PICTURE ROCKS...SILVER BELL 

AND SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK WEST. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF 

PRODUCING BETWEEN 1.00 AND 2.00 INCHES OF RAIN AS THEY PASSED 

THROUGH THE TUCSON METRO AREA. EXPECT SIGNIFICANT AND RAPID RAINFALL 

RUNOFF INTO NORMALLY DRY WASHES...ROADWAY DIPS AND OTHER LOW LYING 

AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS THROUGH RUNNING WATER 

IN A ROADWAY DIP OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.



ELSEWHERE ACROSS EASTERN PIMA COUNTY...THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL... 

BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES...HAD FALLEN 5 MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF 

INTERSTATE 10 TO THE EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 19 INTERCHANGE...AS WELL 

AS BETWEEN GRANT AND ORANGE GROVE ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE 

TUCSON METRO AREA. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURED NEAR THE 

TUCSON MOUNTAINS. EXPECT FLASH FLOODING TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE 

TUCSON METRO AREA AS THIS RAINFALL CONTINUE TO FILL WASHES WITH 

RUNNING WATER.



SOME OF THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE METRO AREA HAVE 

BEEN 1.84 INCHES AT DAVIS MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE...1.26 INCHES ALONG 

VALENCIA AND THE PIMA AIR MUSEUM...AND 1.18 INCHES AT IRVINGTON AND 

BELVEDERE.  



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 

RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



LAT...LON 3199 11147 3179 11060 3241 11053 3251 11102

      3250 11154



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