Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Phoenix, AZ

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
415 PM MST FRI JUL 31 1987

AT 4 PM WEATHER RADAR AT PHOENIX SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER
MUCH OF THE STATE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE HEAVY...AND NOT
MOVING MUCH. AS A RESULT OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT FAINFALL COULD RAPIDLY
ACCUMULATE...RESULTING IN FLOODED ROADWAY DIPS AND RUNNING WASHES.

MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. DO
NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS FREQUENTLY THE WATER IS RUNNING
SWIFTER THAN IT APPEARS...AND MAY CARRY A CAR OFF THE ROAD.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...
BUT SHOULD DECREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY BY MIDNIGHT.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
445 PM MST FRI JUL 31 1987

AT 430 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS ARIZONA.
SOME OF THE STRONGER CELLS...SHOWN BY RADAR AT PHOENIX...WERE LOCATED
NEAR INTERSTATE 17 EAST OF LAKE PLEASANT...NEAR U.S.ROUTE 93 EAST
OF CONGRESS...SOUTH OF WICKENBURG...AND IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.

MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS VERY SLOW...IN GENERAL TOWARD THE
NORTH ABOUT 5 MILES AN HOUR.

DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE CELLS SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS OF
WATER MAY TAKE PLACE...RESULTING IN FLOODED ROADWAY DIPS AND RUNNING
WASHES. THUS MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION THROUGH THE EVENING
HOURS.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
535 PM MST FRI JUL 31 1987

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE SALT RIVER
VALLEY. AT 530 LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED AT FOUNTAIN HILLS...
ALONG WITH SOME LIGHTNING. AND REPORTS OF LIGHTNING WERE ALSO RECEIVED
FROM NORTH SCOTTSDALE...ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO ABOUT 30 MILES AN
HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE GREATER PHOENIX AREA THROUGH THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS. AT THE PRESENT TIME IT APPEARS THE NORTH AND EAST SIDES
OF PHOENIX HAVE THE BEST CHANCES OF MEASURABLE RAIN.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
605 PM MST FRI JUL 31 1987

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO SCOTTSDALE...ALONG WITH HEAVY
RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ONLY LIGHT RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THE
WEATHER SERVICE OFFIVE AT SKY HARBOR AIRPORT BUT ABOUT 6 PM WINDS
GUSTED TO ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

AS THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT MOVING VERY FAST THERE WILL BE LOCAL
FLOODING IN THE SCOTTSDALE AREA OF LOW SPOTS AND ROADS..AIND POSSIBLY
SOME HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS COULD DRIFT WEST AND SOUTH SOME IN THE NEXT
HALF HOUR...BUT IT STILL APPEARS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF PHOENIX WILL
NOT GET OVERLY WET.

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