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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
1227 PM MDT THU OCT 23 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN KANE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN UTAH...
* UNTIL 330 PM MDT.
* AT 1227 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF HOLE-IN-THE-ROCK ROAD.
UP TO 0.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
UP TO 0.75 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING
IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY ACROSS AREAS NEAR COYOTE
GULCH AND FORTY MILE CREEK TO THE CONFLUENCES WITH THE ESCALANTE
RIVER.
HAZARD...LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS
PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.
SOURCE...RADAR.
IMPACT...LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS, STREAMS,
NORMALLY DRY WASHES, AND BACKCOUNTRY ROADS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
COYOTE GULCH UP THROUGH SCORPION EAST, FORTY MILE GULCH, FIFTY
MILE GULCH, DAVIS GULCH, AND THE LOWER PORTION OF THE ESCALANTE
RIVER ALONG HOLE-IN-THE-ROCK ROAD IN NORTHEASTERN KANE COUNTY
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
REMAIN ALERT FOR FLOODING EVEN IN LOCATIONS NOT RECEIVING RAIN. DRY
WASHES, STREAMS, AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES, EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS, RIVERS, OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.
LAT...LON 3750 11094 3732 11088 3723 11093 3723 11108
3745 11121 3750 11113
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOOD DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
JAC
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