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Thursday morning storms trigger flash flooding and evacuations for areas near Gould Wash in Washington county

By ABC4 · October 22, 2026 · 1 min read
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It was a wet and stormy Thursday morning across portions of Washington county in southern Utah. A line of training thunderstorms rolled across the area, bringing up to 1.00" -2.00" of rainfall in a short period of time.

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