PHOENIX – A driver got stuck in a flash flood on a far north Phoenix roadway Friday morning as thunderstorms moved through the area, authorities said.
Technical rescue teams were dispatched to North Valley Parkway near Dixileta Drive around 5 a.m., according to the Phoenix Fire Department.
By the time they arrived, Phoenix Police Department officers already had helped the vehicle’s lone occupant to safety.
The conditions were caused by storms that developed Thursday evening and rolled through central and north Phoenix into the Cave Creek/Carefree area overnight, triggering a flash flood warning that was set to expire at 7:15 a.m.
“Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport picked up 0.23 inches of rain, and then areas farther north … picked up anywhere between a half an inch to an inch of rain,” Gabriel Lojero of the National Weather Service told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Friday morning.
Thursday night’s activity prompted authorities to issue a thunderstorm warning for Maricopa County.
Will there be more thunderstorms, flash flooding in metro Phoenix?
Lojero said there could be more rain in the Valley as the day progresses, but additional flash flooding is unlikely.
“There’s a potential maybe of a few isolated showers and storms later this afternoon and into this evening, but it should be much more isolated in nature compared to what we saw during the overnight period, where the rainfall activity was a little bit more widespread,” he said.
There could be stronger activity north and east of the Valley, Lojero noted.
KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Ginia McFarland contributed to this report.
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