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Flash Flood Warning

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Big Horn, WY; Washakie, WY

Status In Progress Started 37 minutes ago
Ends
Issued
Severity Severe
Urgency Immediate
Certainty Likely

Details

At 632 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms which produced heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1.5 and 2.5 inches of rain fell earlier this afternoon on the normally dry washes and gulches that feed into the Nowood River upstream of Manderson. Flash flooding may be occurring in the warned area.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Mainly rural areas of South Central Big Horn and Northern Washakie Counties along the Nowood River upstream of Manderson.
This includes the following streams and drainages... Betonite Ridge Draw, Paint Rock Creek, South Fork Brokenback Creek, Hidden Dome Draw, Nowood River, Sand Creek, Zeisman Dome Draw, East Fork McDermotts Gulch, Buffalo Creek, Weintz Draw, Brokenback Creek and Big Cottonwood Creek.
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