Flash Flood Warning

At 846 PM MST, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing flash flooding.

SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.

IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.

Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Safford, Thatcher, Roper Lake State Park, Mount Graham, Frye Mesa Dam, Fort Grant and Swift Trail Junction.

This includes the following highways... Route 191 between mile markers 112 and 118. Route 266 near mile marker 121...and between mile markers 125 and 126.

This includes the following streams and drainages... Frye Creek, Twilight Creek, Jacobson Creek, Gila River, Gibson Creek, Ash Creek, Stockton Wash, Noon Creek and Marijilda Wash.