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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 7, 1990La Paz County, Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1990, 6:16 PM MST for La Paz County, Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 1990, 6:16 PM MST (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1990, 7:51 PM MST
In force: 95 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Whole counties

Counties La Paz County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ

The radar

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

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPHX 080127 COR
FFWPHX
AZC029-025-080315-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX ARIZONA
616 PM MST SAT JUL 7 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM MST
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWEST ARIZONA

   ...NORTHEASTERN LA PAZ COUNTY

IN WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA

   ...SOUTHWESTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPED IN WESTERN ARIZONA
GENERALLY FROM SALOME AND WENDEN NORTHEAST TO THE MINING COMMUNITY OF
BAGDAD. IT HAD BEEN RAINING IN THE AREA FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS.

FLASH FLOODING AND FLOODING WAS REPORTED...ALONG WITH ROCK
SLIDES...ALONG SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 93 NEAR THE JOSHUA FOREST PARKWAY.
WASHES ACROSS HIGHWAY 93 AND SECTIONS OF ROADS 97 AND 96 TO BAGDAD ARE
LIKELY RUNNING AND HAVE PERHAPS CLOSED THOSE ROADS.

SHERIFF OFFICERS IN PRESCOTT ESTIMATED HIGHWAY 93 NEAR THE JOSHUA
FOREST PARKWAY TO BE CLOSED AT 630 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL PERSIST IN WESTERN ARIZONA IN
YAVAPAI COUNTY...WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF PRESCOTT... FOR SEVERAL HOURS.


FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY HAPPENING OR ABOUT TO HAPPEN. MOVE AWAY
FROM STREAMS OR WASHES. HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND. ON THE HIGHWAY...SLOW
DOWN AND KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT AHEAD FOR FLOODING.

VASQUEZ

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, Jul 7, 2:02 PM MST, 4 hours 14 minutes before

AZZALL-080000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
210 PM MST SAT JUL 7 1990

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CENTRAL ARIZONA...

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN CENTRAL ARIZONA IN THE EARLY
AFTERNOON. DUSTSTORMS SWEPT OVER MOST OF PHOENIX FROM THE SOUTH BY
2 PM WITH WIND GUSTS TO 39 MPH AT SKY HARBOR AIRPORT.

RADAR INDICATED RAIN OVER MOST OF EASTERN PINAL COUNTY AT 2 PM AND
SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS OVER MOST OF MARICOPA COUNTY. NO REPORTS
OF HEAVY RAIN IN EITHER PINAL OR MARICOPA COUNTIES HAD BEEN
RECEIVED AT THE WEATHER SERVICE AS OF 2 PM.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN MARICOPA...
EASTERN PINAL...WESTERN GRAHAM AND ALL OF GILA COUNTIES.

BJOREM

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:49 PM MST, 2 hours 27 minutes before

AZZALL-080000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
350 PM MST SAT JUL 7 1990

   ...LARGE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NEAR THE COLORADO RIVER IN
                       WESTERN ARIZONA...

THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON HOURS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPED
AROUND MOST OF ARIZONA...GENERALLY EAST OF THE COLORADO RIVER.

HOWEVER AT 3 PM SATELLITE PICTURES SHOWED LARGE THUNDERSTORMS BREAKING
OUT IN FAR WESTERN ARIZONA NEAR THE COLORADO RIVER.  CLOUD MOTIONS
INDICATE THERE MIGHT BE A WEAK ZONE DEVELOPING IN THE ATMOSPHERE OVER
FAR WESTERN ARIZONA THAT MAY SUPPORT VERY LARGE THUNDERSTORMS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

AT 330 PM PHOENIX WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS JUST
EAST OF THE COLORADO RIVER FROM YUMA NORTH TO LAKE HAVASU.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWESTWARD TOWARDS THE COLORADO RIVER.
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PERSONS ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER AND FAR WESTERN ARIZONA SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR WIND GUSTS TO POSSIBLY 55 MPH... DENSE BLOWING DUST...
FOLLOWED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.

VASQUEZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 4:10 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	Mohave	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1990 Every flash flood warning in 1990

Sources

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