Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Phoenix, AZ

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX ARIZONA
1250 PM MST SAT MAY 9 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST ARIZONA
EARLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST ARIZONA
AT 1230 PM.  WEATHER RADAR AT THIS TIME SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG
STORMS EAST OF PAGE AND NORTH OF TUBA CITY ON THE NAVAJO AND HOPI
INDIAN RESERVATIONS.     OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST
ARIZONA WERE DETECTED NEAR SPRINGERVILLE...WINDOW ROCK...AND TOWARDS
CANYON DE CHELLY.  RADAR SIGNITURES INDICATE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE
ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS WHICH WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST OR
SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

ELSEWHERE IN ARIZONA AN EXTENSIVE NORTHEAST SOUTHWEST ORIENTED CLOUD
BAND MOVED THROUGH MUCH OF CENTRAL ARIZONA THIS MORNING AND EARLY
AFTERNOON.  THIS CLOUD FEATURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK ZONE IN THE
ATMOSPHERE WHICH MOVED OUT OF NEVADA AND UTAH OVERNIGHT. SO FAR ONLY
SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN OR SPINKLES...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...HAVE
DEVELOPED IN CENTRAL ARIZONA INCLUDING METRO PHOENIX.  THIS CLOUD
BAND WAS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST WITH CLEARING SKIES
FOLLOWING IN ITS WAKE.

HOWEVER INCREASING SUNSHINE TODAY WILL PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.  SOME STORMS SHOULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...
AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

VASQUEZ