{"url_path":"/weather/alerts/2.49.0.1.840.0.04eaf45f0f73758d53088ed1dbd6b4455b088aac.001.1","section_key":"alert","section_title":"Flash Flood Warning issued July 20 at 3:46PM MST until July 20 at 6:45PM MST by NWS Flagstaff AZ","topic":"weather","document":{"doc_type":"alert","doc_date":"2026-07-20","source_url":"https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn%3Aoid%3A2.49.0.1.840.0.04eaf45f0f73758d53088ed1dbd6b4455b088aac.001.1","accession_number":null,"cik":null,"ticker":null,"issuer_name":null,"edgar_url":null,"primary_entity_key":null,"primary_entity_name":"NWS Flagstaff AZ"},"word_count":361,"has_tables":false,"body_markdown":"# Flash Flood Warning: Flash Flood Warning issued July 20 at 3:46PM MST until July 20 at 6:45PM MST by NWS Flagstaff AZ\n\n**Severity:** Severe\n**Certainty:** Likely\n**Urgency:** Immediate\n**Areas:** Yavapai, AZ\n**Issued by:** NWS Flagstaff AZ\n**Sent:** 2026-07-20T15:46:00-07:00\n**Effective:** 2026-07-20T15:46:00-07:00\n**Expires:** 2026-07-20T18:45:00-07:00\n\n## Description\nFFWFGZ\n\nThe National Weather Service in Flagstaff has issued a\n\n* Flash Flood Warning for...\nYavapai County in west central Arizona...\n\n* Until 645 PM MST.\n\n* At 346 PM MST, National Weather Service Flagstaff doppler radar\nindicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the greater\nPrescott area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin\nshortly.\n\nHAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing\nflash flooding.\n\nSOURCE...Radar indicated.\n\nIMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,\nnormally dry washes, urban areas, highways, streets and\nunderpasses.\n\n* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...\nPrescott Valley, Prescott, Chino Valley, Williamson Valley,\nClarkdale, Dewey-Humboldt, Wildwood Estates, Embry-Riddle\nAeronautical University, Prescott Regional Airport, Prescott Rodeo\nGrounds, Downtown Prescott, Rancho Vista Estates, Fain Lake, Oak\nKnoll Village, Yavapai County Fairgrounds, Thumbe Butte, Willow\nCreek Reservoir, Watson Lake, Jerome State Historic Park and\nWoodchute Mountain.\n\nThis includes the following highways...\nState Route 69 between mile markers 278 and 296. State Route 89\nbetween mile markers 308 and 323. State Route 89A between mile\nmarkers 318 and 347.\n\nThis includes the following recreation areas and campgrounds...\nWhite Spar Campground, Yavapai Campground, Powell Springs Campground,\nPotato Patch Campground, Playground Group Campground, Potato Patch\nCampground, Powell Springs Campground, Yavapai Campground, Lynx\nCampground, Eagle Ridge Group Campground, Hilltop Campground, Cayuse\nPicnic Area, Acker Park, AC Williams Granite Creek Park, Watson Lake\nPark, Mountainview Park and Goldwater Lake Park.\n\nThis includes the following creeks, washes and rivers...\nLittle Hackberry Wash, Cherry Creek, Verde River, Spence Creek, Ash\nCreek, Coyote Spring, Osborne Spring Wash, Coyote Wash, Munds Draw,\nHackberry Wash, Agua Fria River, Bitter Creek, Winters Wash,\nRacetrack Wash, Blowout Creek, Oak Wash, Mint Wash, Lynx Creek,\nGranite Creek, Brushy Wash, Bottleneck Wash, Little Chino Valley,\nButte Creek, Cienega Creek, Chaparral Gulch, Willow Creek, Miller\nCreek, Yarber Wash and Bannon Creek.\n\n## Instructions\nFlooding of washes and creeks will occur, some dirt roads will become\nmuddy and impassable. Paved roads and underpasses could become\nflooded as well."}