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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ

403 PM MST SUN JUL 27 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  SOUTH CENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA...

  THIS INCLUDES THE CORONADO NATIONAL MEMORIAL...



* UNTIL 700 PM MST



* AT 347 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  THAT HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING OVER SOUTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY 

  MAINLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE CORONADO NATIONAL MEMORIAL. RADAR 

  INDICATED THAT UP TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN ON 

  MONTEZUMA CANYON ROAD THIS AFTERNOON. STAFF FROM THE CORONADO 

  NATIONAL MEMORIAL INDICATED THAT THE STREAM AND CREEKS WERE 

  RUNNING OR OVERFLOWING. DOPPLER RADAR ALSO INDICATED THAT HEAVY

  RAIN MAY BE CAUSING FLASH FLOODING SOUTH OF TOMBSTONE AND ALONG 

  STATE HIGHWAY 92 BETWEEN PALOMINAS AND BISBEE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH 

  HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON HAVE BEEN MOVING OVER THE SAME SPOT AND 

  THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. 



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 3140 11032 3144 11017 3168 11007 3135 10961

      3134 11031



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