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Extreme meteorologist Dr. Reed Timmer reports from the Moenkapi Wash as floodwaters from a train of severe storms inch closer to bridges and homes.
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00:00We have a severe thunderstorm warning for Tuba City and Moenkapi Village.
00:04There you can see the core right there.
00:06It's got a severe thunderstorm warning and a tornado possible tag.
00:09And there's already a flash flood warning here.
00:11You can see the flood is getting close to the bridge.
00:14This is Moenkapi Wash here.
00:16This is expected to continue to rise at the arrival of a train of supercell storms
00:21that are producing a lot of rainfall.
00:23And those floods will also likely come down the smaller washes toward Highway 89,
00:27likely overtopping Highway 89 later on today.
00:31But you can see there is a ton of water out here.
00:33It's flooding the whole basin.
00:35Homes are getting flooded down there, farms as well,
00:38in the entire basin of Moenkapi Wash here.
00:41And you can see a lot of flow, a lot of flooding.
00:44Severe thunderstorm is approaching from the south.
00:47This has a tornado possible tag, and we expect this to dump
00:49at least a few more inches of rain on this.
00:52So this flood very easily could overtop the bridge here in northern Arizona.
00:56This is north of Cameron, just to the south of Tuba City.
01:00Tornado watch continues, and we expect that tornado threat
01:03to continue through evening.

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