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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ

342 PM MST MON JUL 23 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA...

   THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TUCSON...ORO VALLEY...MARANA...

     SILVER BELL...



* UNTIL 515 PM MST



* AT 336 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.



THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR

THIS AREA.



LAT...LON 3230 11175 3231 11140 3175 11086 3176 11045

      3251 11047 3249 11140 3250 11181



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