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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 29, 1988Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 1988, 8:16 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 29, 1988, 8:16 PM MST (03:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1988, 9:15 PM MST
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Mohave County, AZ

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1988-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 133 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1988-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 8:16 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMohave59 min
Aug 29, 9:56 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRMaricopa5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1988Every flash flood warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.