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Flash Flood Warnings in Pima County, Arizona, 2019

25 flash flood warnings in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
25
Busiest month
July9 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
September 24, 20194 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.

6 of 25 flash flood warnings covering Pima County in 2019 had a flash flood report inside them; 10 of 12 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 74 minutes after it went out.

Pima County, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings25676%1283%74 min

Each office's whole area, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tucson, AZ: flash flood warnings401173%2378%67 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 13, 5:35 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC115 min
Jul 22, 3:44 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Jul 22, 4:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Jul 25, 4:04 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC116 min
Jul 25, 7:14 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Jul 29, 4:43 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC2 hr
Jul 30, 6:32 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Jul 31, 2:51 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC114 min
Jul 31, 3:16 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC119 min
Aug 10, 1:14 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Aug 10, 2:40 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Aug 22, 7:34 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC4 hr
Aug 22, 9:04 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Aug 28, 4:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC95 min
Aug 28, 5:05 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC115 min
Aug 28, 7:15 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC90 min
Sep 1, 5:19 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC116 min
Sep 1, 8:15 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC2 hr
Sep 16, 4:03 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Sep 16, 5:18 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Sep 24, 2:46 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Sep 24, 8:09 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Sep 24, 8:14 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Sep 24, 11:07 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr
Nov 19, 6:32 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWC3 hr

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.