Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1988, 8:50 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1988, 8:50 PM MST (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1988, 10:45 PM MST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 6:18 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 57 min |
| Jul 29, 8:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 50 min |
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.