Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 1990, 5:24 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 111 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1990, 5:24 PM MST (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1990, 7:15 PM MST
- In force
- 111 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:29 PM MST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AZZALL-052300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 230 PM MST SUN AUG 5 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND MOVING WESTWARD... AT 2 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE RIM AND OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS...ACCORDING TO THE PHOENIX RADAR...WERE ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLAGSTAFF...BETWEEN HAPPY JACK AND CAMP VERDE...NEAR PAYSON...AND NEAR WHITERIVER. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING GENERALLY TO THE WEST AT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO REPORTED BY PILOTS OVER NORTHEAST ARIZONA NEAR CHINLE. AN ISOLATED CELL WAS ALSO WEST OF PRESCOTT. STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS... MORE LIKELY AFTER ABOUT 4 PM AS CELLS MERGE...ACCELERATE AND PROPAGATE TO THE WEST. IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES IN...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. SS..
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:37 PM MST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
AZZALL-052330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 PM MST SUN AUG 5 1990 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORSMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS OVER THE CENTRAL ARIZONA MOUNTAINS... AT 315 PM WEATHER RADAR DETECTED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS BETWEEN PRESCOTT...EASTWARD THROUGH PAYSON...AND SOUTHEAST TO FORT APACHE OR NORTHEAST OF GLOBE. RADAR SHOWED THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PERHAPS STRONG WINDS AS WELL. RAINFALL RATES WERE ON THE ORDER OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLOODING OF WASHES AND ROADWAY DIPS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THEY ARE MOVING WEST SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH WHICH WILL TAKE THEM INTO THE CENTRAL DESERTS FROM WICKENBURG TO PHOENIX THIS EVENING. AS USUAL...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY REACHES ITS PEAK NEAR SUNSET. PERSONS IN ARIZONAS CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND ON THE DESERTS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND PREPARE FOR THE HAZARDS OF THUNDERSTORMS... SHOULD WEATHER APPROACH. STRONG WINDS TO 50 MPH... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... HAIL...DUST STORMS... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ALL ACCOMPANY THUNDERSTORMS. VASQUEZ
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:46 PM MST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
AZZALL-052330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 PM MST SUN AUG 5 1990 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORSMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS OVER THE CENTRAL ARIZONA MOUNTAINS... AT 315 PM WEATHER RADAR DETECTED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS BETWEEN PRESCOTT...EASTWARD THROUGH PAYSON...AND SOUTHEAST TO FORT APACHE OR NORTHEAST OF GLOBE. RADAR SHOWED THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PERHAPS STRONG WINDS AS WELL. RAINFALL RATES WERE ON THE ORDER OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLOODING OF WASHES AND ROADWAY DIPS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THEY ARE MOVING WEST SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH WHICH WILL TAKE THEM INTO THE CENTRAL DESERTS FROM WICKENBURG TO PHOENIX THIS EVENING. AS USUAL...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY REACHES ITS PEAK NEAR SUNSET. PERSONS IN ARIZONAS CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND ON THE DESERTS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND PREPARE FOR THE HAZARDS OF THUNDERSTORMS... SHOULD WEATHER APPROACH. STRONG WINDS TO 50 MPH... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... HAIL...DUST STORMS... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ALL ACCOMPANY THUNDERSTORMS. VASQUEZ
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:29 PM MST, 55 minutes before
AZZALL-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 425 PM MST SUN AUG 5 1990 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS MOVING FROM PRESCOTT SOUTHWEST TOWARDS HIGHWAY 93 BETWEEN WIKIEUP AND WICKENBURG... THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED OVER THE MOUNTAINS NEAR PRESCOTT THIS AFTERNOON HAVE ORGANIZED INTO A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. AT 415 PM THE THUNDERSTORM LINE WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF PRESCOTT...EXTENDING SOUTHEAST TOWARDS THE INTERSTATE 17 TOWN OF BLACK CANYON CITY. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH AND WILL CARRY INTO HIGHWAY 93 ...INCLUDING THE TOWN AND CITY OF WIKIEUP AND WICKENBURG BETWEEN 430 AND 6PM. THESE STO&RMS CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN... STRONG WINDS TO 50 MPH... AND POSSIBLY HAIL. VASQUEZ
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:06 PM MST, 18 minutes before
AZZALL-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 505 PM MST SUN AUG 5 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING TOWARDS THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY CITIES OF BULLHEAD... LAKE HAVASU... PARKER THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING OVER THE MOUNTAINS FROM KINGMAN TO PRESCOTT AND TOWARDS PHOENIX ARE EXPANDING WEST AND SOUTHWESTWARD. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY FROM PARKER NORTH TO BULLHEAD CITY TAHIS EVENING. STRONG WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... DUST STORMS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. VASQUEZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:24 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 111 min |
| Aug 5, 5:47 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Mohave | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Mohave | 118 min |
| Aug 5, 6:40 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | La Paz, Mohave | 110 min |
| Aug 5, 6:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz, Mohave | 110 min |
| Aug 5, 8:35 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | La Paz | 85 min |
| Aug 5, 8:35 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz | 85 min |
| Aug 6, 3:00 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | La Paz, Mohave | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz, Mohave | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:40 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 110 min |
| Aug 6, 3:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 110 min |
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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.