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Flash Flood Warnings in Maricopa County, Arizona, 2012
35 flash flood warnings in 2012. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Maricopa County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 35
- Busiest month
- August14 flash flood warnings
- Busiest day
- July 14, 20125 flash flood warnings
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
5 of 35 flash flood warnings covering Maricopa County in 2012 had a flash flood report inside them; 4 of 14 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 37 minutes after it went out.
Maricopa County, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash flood warnings | 35 | 5 | 86% | 14 | 29% | 37 min |
Each office's whole area, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings | 78 | 22 | 72% | 46 | 70% | 62 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 9:23 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 112 min |
| Jul 14, 12:49 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:02 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:27 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:48 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 117 min |
| Jul 14, 4:50 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:03 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 117 min |
| Jul 24, 12:18 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 117 min |
| Jul 24, 2:43 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:09 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:03 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 87 min |
| Jul 31, 6:21 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 114 min |
| Aug 16, 7:08 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:10 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:41 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:42 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:25 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:02 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:09 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 81 min |
| Aug 18, 6:49 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 7:21 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 114 min |
| Aug 21, 8:28 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:44 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:23 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 54 min |
| Aug 30, 6:57 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:42 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 9:09 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Sep 4, 10:14 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 72 min |
| Sep 7, 9:45 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 9:53 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 112 min |
| Sep 7, 12:52 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 113 min |
| Sep 10, 9:26 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 79 min |
| Sep 10, 10:45 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 60 min |
| Sep 10, 11:25 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 110 min |
| Oct 11, 6:35 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 3 hr |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.