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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 27, 1996Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1996, 8:01 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 74 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 27, 1996, 8:01 PM MST (03:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 1996, 9:15 PM MST
In force
74 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

Counties Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1996-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 502 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1996-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 5:13 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRGila62 min
Aug 27, 6:05 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRPinal55 min
Aug 27, 7:17 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa53 min
Aug 27, 8:00 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRPinal60 min
Aug 27, 8:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRPinal60 min
Aug 27, 8:01 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal74 min
Aug 27, 8:30 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRMaricopa60 min
Aug 27, 8:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa60 min

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.