Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jan 11, 1993, 5:15 AM MST for Greenlee County, Arizona. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 1993, 5:15 AM MST (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 1993, 4:30 PM MST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenlee County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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, Jan 11, 4:38 AM MST, 37 minutes before
AZZ002-111645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX ARIZONA 440 AM MST MON JAN 11 1993 ...SNOW ADVISORY CENTRAL MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6500 FEET THIS MORNING... THE STORM SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SNOW ALONG THE RIM AND AT THE GRAND CANYON WAS MOVING TO THE EAST EARLY THIS MORNING...AND LIGHT AMOUNTS OF NEW SNOW ARE EXPECTED THIS MORNING. AT 4 AM IN WILLIAMS...THE SNOW HAD TEMPORARILY STOPPED...BUT IT WAS REPORTED TO BE QUITE WINDY. THE SNOW HAD ALSO STOPPED AT THE SOUTH RIM OF THE GRAND CANYON...WITH ABOUT 8 INCHES ON THE GROUND. THE PARK RANGER ALSO REPORTED A TEMPERATURE OF 30 DEGREES. IN FLAGSTAFF...DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED ON AND OFF SNOW DURING THE NIGHT BUT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION. MORE SNOW IS EXPECTED FOR YOUR DRIVE TO WORK THIS MORNING...BUT THE NEW SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THIS MORNING ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN 3 INCHES. WINDS WILL BE VERY STRONG...UP TO 30 MPH...WITH SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTIN ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION. LEAVE EXTRA ROOM BETWEEN VEHICLES AS ROADS WILL LIKELY BE SLIPPERY. SIPPLE
Special weather statement, Jan 11, 4:56 AM MST, 19 minutes before
AZZ002-003-005-006-111645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO 2ND PARAGRAPH... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX ARIZONA 455 AM MST MON JAN 11 1993 ...SNOW ADVISORY CENTRAL MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6500 FEET THIS MORNING... THE STORM SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SNOW ALONG THE RIM AND AT THE GRAND CANYON WAS MOVING TO THE EAST EARLY THIS MORNING...AND LIGHT AMOUNTS OF NEW SNOW ARE EXPECTED THIS MORNING. AT 4 AM IN WILLIAMS...THE SNOW HAD TEMPORARILY STOPPED...BUT IT WAS REPORTED TO BE QUITE WINDY. THE SNOW HAD ALSO STOPPED AT THE SOUTH RIM OF THE GRAND CANYON...WITH ABOUT 8 INCHES ON THE GROUND. THE PARK RANGER ALSO REPORTED A TEMPERATURE OF 30 DEGREES. AN OBSERVER IN PINETOP LAKES...NEAR MCNARY...REPORTED BETWEEN 6 AND 8 INCHES OVERNIGHT. IN FLAGSTAFF...DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED ON AND OFF SNOW DURING THE NIGHT BUT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION. MORE SNOW IS EXPECTED FOR YOUR DRIVE TO WORK THIS MORNING...BUT THE NEW SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THIS MORNING ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN 3 INCHES. WINDS WILL BE VERY STRONG...UP TO 30 MPH...WITH SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTIN ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION. LEAVE EXTRA ROOM BETWEEN VEHICLES AS ROADS WILL L0IKELY BE SLIPPERY. SIPPLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 8:10 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Greenlee | 8 hr |
| Jan 11, 8:30 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Greenlee | 8 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:45 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Graham, Greenlee | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.