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Map showing drainage basins and historic cloudburst floods in the Salina quadrangle, Utah Map showing drainage basins and historic cloudburst floods in the Salina quadrangle, Utah

In the Salina quadrangle, as in most of the arid West, summer precipitation commonly occurs as thunderstorms. Suring these storms, rain falls as a torrential downpour, or cloudburst, in a local area. An inch of rain or more may fall in half an hour; U.S. Weather Bureau records show that o.4 inch of rain has fallen in a period of 5 minutes (Woolley, 1946). Such a fall of water far exceeds...
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