Flash Flood Warning

FFWTWC

The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for... South Central Graham County in southeastern Arizona...

* Until 1000 PM MST.

* At 656 PM MST, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.5 and 1.8 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.7 to 1 inch are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.

IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Safford, Thatcher, Solomon, San Jose, Roper Lake State Park, Safford Regional Airport, Pima, Central, Frye Mesa Dam and Swift Trail Junction.

This includes the following highways... Route 191 between mile markers 108 and 120. Route 70 between mile markers 310 and 348.

This includes the following streams and drainages... Tidwell Wash, San Simon River, Gibson Creek, Noon Creek, Marijilda Wash, Peck Wash, Coyote Wash, Lone Star Wash, Gila River, Ash Creek, Watson Wash, Bigler Wash, Black Rock Wash, Stockton Wash, Twilight Creek, Markham Wash, Frye Creek, Slick Rock Wash, Patterson Wash, Jacobson Creek and Hot Springs Wash.