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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 22, 1992Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1992, 4:37 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 1992, 4:37 PM MST (23:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1992, 6:45 PM MST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Whole counties

Counties Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Jul 22, 4:22 PM MST, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 3:00 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	Pinal	2 hr
Jul 22, 3:00 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Pinal	2 hr
Jul 22, 4:37 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1992 Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.