The Ministry of Water Resources and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued an orange meteorological warning for flash floods at 6 p.m. on July 4:
It is expected that from 20 o'clock on July 4 to 20 o'clock on July 5, there is a greater possibility of flash floods in some areas of southwest Shanxi, western Henan, northwest Hubei, northeast Sichuan, northern Chongqing, and southern Shaanxi (yellow warning), among them, the possibility of flash floods in northeast Sichuan and southern Shaanxi is high (orange warning), and the counties (cities, districts) involved in the warning area are shown in the following table. Other areas may also be caused by local short-term heavy precipitation caused by flash floods, please pay attention to real-time monitoring, flood prevention and early warning, transfer and avoidance and other prevention work.
