Hurricane police issue evacuation orders due to flooding

HURRICANE — Evacuations have been ordered in areas of Hurricane due to imminent flooding, according to the Hurricane Police Department.

Residents located in the Willow Wind complex at 80 S. 1150 West have been ordered to evacuate, along with any residents located along Gould Wash.

Medical personnel have been staged at the Coral Cliffs movie theater, 835 W. State Street, for any residents who may need medical assistance, the department said.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened a stake center as an emergency shelter for those who have been displaced by the flooding. It is located at 272 S. 700 West.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for southeastern Washington County, including Hurricane, shortly before 10 a.m. It warned that between 1 and 2 inches of rain had fallen across the headwaters of Gould Wash, creating a "large flood wave" that was "moving downstream through Hurricane."

The warning is set to expire just before noon.

Federal forecasters previously issued a flood watch for most of southern and central Utah over flooding potential from a system passing through Utah this week.

Warnings have been issued in other parts of both regions over the past couple of days, including ones at Zion National Park and the Pine Valley area of Washington County earlier on Thursday.

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