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Flash Flood Warnings in Pima County, Arizona, 2010

39 flash flood warnings in 2010. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Pima County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
39
Busiest month
July19 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
July 30, 20104 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.

14 of 39 flash flood warnings covering Pima County in 2010 had a flash flood report inside them; 23 of 25 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 54 minutes after it went out.

Pima County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings391464%2592%54 min

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tucson, AZ: flash flood warnings652758%4984%1134 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 15, 6:16 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC61 min
Jul 18, 6:38 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC81 min
Jul 19, 4:33 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC81 min
Jul 19, 11:51 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC84 min
Jul 21, 3:45 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC2 hr
Jul 21, 4:41 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC109 min
Jul 22, 1:47 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC118 min
Jul 22, 4:17 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC118 min
Jul 23, 4:29 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC61 min
Jul 27, 2:05 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC115 min
Jul 27, 2:57 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Jul 29, 2:18 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC117 min
Jul 29, 10:49 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC116 min
Jul 29, 11:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC2 hr
Jul 29, 11:31 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC119 min
Jul 30, 12:55 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC110 min
Jul 30, 8:09 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Jul 30, 10:01 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Jul 31, 12:53 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC112 min
Aug 15, 5:00 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC61 min
Aug 15, 5:54 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Aug 15, 8:42 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Aug 17, 12:50 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC115 min
Aug 17, 1:19 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC87 min
Aug 17, 2:43 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC2 hr
Aug 21, 10:05 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC115 min
Aug 23, 1:42 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC42 min
Aug 24, 3:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC2 hr
Aug 24, 5:06 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Aug 27, 12:09 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC52 min
Aug 27, 2:07 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC83 min
Aug 28, 2:13 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC62 min
Aug 28, 3:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC65 min
Aug 28, 3:50 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC115 min
Aug 28, 4:13 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC92 min
Aug 28, 6:46 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC119 min
Sep 3, 3:13 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC62 min
Sep 3, 3:55 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC2 hr
Sep 22, 12:16 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC95 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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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.