Flooding closes roads near Red Rock Canyon

Heavy rainfall adjacent Red Rock Canyon implicit the past 24 hours has caused immoderate flooding Friday greeting successful a agrarian country of Clark County.

The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada said determination was flooding successful the country of State Route 159, Red Rock Canyon Road and Calico Basin Road, conscionable anterior to 8 a.m. Roads were closed successful the area. Motorists were advised to usage alternate routes.

The National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas said Friday greeting that implicit the past 24 hours astir 1.73 inches of rainfall fell adjacent the Red Rock Canyon visitant center.

“There is going to beryllium immoderate rainfall done the greeting (in the Las Vegas Valley),” said Brian Planz, meteorologist with the NWS. “Just showers.”

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