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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Phoenix, AZ

September 4, 1996La Paz County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 1996, 8:45 PM MST for La Paz County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 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: Sep 4, 1996, 8:45 PM MST (03:45 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 1996, 9:50 PM MST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Whole counties

County La Paz County, AZ

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, Sep 4, 7:53 PM MST, 52 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
Sep 4, 5:05 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	La Paz	115 min
Sep 4, 7:42 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	La Paz	63 min
Sep 4, 7:42 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	La Paz	63 min
Sep 5, 4:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

Sources

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