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WGUS55 KTWC 020045

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ

540 PM MST WED AUG 1 2007



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  CENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA...

   INCLUDING THE CITY OF DOUGLAS...ELFRIDA AND PEARCE-SUNSITES...



* UNTIL 745 PM MST



* AT 540 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE FROM DOUGLAS...

  TO ELFRIDA...TO SUNSITES. 



* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SUNIZONA...

  PEARCE-SUNSITES...MCNEAL...KANSAS SETTLEMENT...ELFRIDA...DRAGOON

  AND BISBEE-DOUGLAS AIRPORT.



A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM DOUGLAS...TO 

ELFRIDA...TO SUNSITES HAS PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE PAST 

45 MINUETS. THE BISBEE-DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED 0.92 

INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN ONLY 40 MINUTES. RAINFALL RUNOFF WILL 

QUICKLY FILL NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND OTHER LOW WATER CROSSINGS WITH 

RUNNING WATER. 



MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO

AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY

DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL

ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED

ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 3202 11010 3134 10981 3134 10936 3150 10942

      3216 10977



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