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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
456 PM MST TUE SEP 29 2026
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS EXTENDED THE
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN COCHISE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA...
* UNTIL 715 PM MST.
* AT 456 PM MST, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 0.8 AND 2.5 INCHES OF
RAIN HAVE FALLEN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 0.2 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ONGOING OR EXPECTED
TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
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...
WILLCOX, TOMBSTONE, DRAGOON, PEARCE-SUNSITES, COCHISE, KANSAS
SETTLEMENT, FAIRBANK AND CHARLESTON.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
ROUTE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 307 AND 325. ROUTE 191 BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 46 AND 66. INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 322 AND 342.
ROUTE 82 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 60 AND 67.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...
HABERSTOCK WASH, DRAGOON WASH, BABOCOMARI RIVER, ESCALANTE WASH,
WALNUT WASH, SAN PEDRO RIVER, WILLOW WASH, DIAL WASH, HENDERSON
WASH, WALNUT GULCH, CLIFFORD WASH, REEVES CREEK AND SLAVIN WASH.
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.
WASHES, STREAMS, AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES, EVEN FROM DISTANT RAINFALL.
LAT...LON 3216 10971 3211 10959 3196 10977 3163 11000
3160 11010 3161 11024 3178 11021 3202 11009
3243 10990 3243 10973 3224 10985
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
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