Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Tucson, AZ

Issued

Jul 8, 1996, 2:44 PM MST (21:44 UTC)

Expired

Jul 8, 1996, 3:45 PM MST

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Tucson, AZ

Area

Whole counties

County Pima County, AZ

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KTUS 082145
FFWTUS
AZC019-082245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
244 PM MST MON JUL 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY
 
AT 240 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GREEN VALLEY. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE WEST AT 5
MPH. STORMS TODAY HAVE BEEN PRODUCING EXTREMELY LARGE RAINFALL TOTALS.
 
THE CITY OF CONTINENTAL AND THE PORTION OF INTERSTATE-19 BETWEEN GREEN
VALLEY AND CONTINENTAL WILL BE AFFECTED BY 345 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  DMOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
MCCOLLUM

NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 8, 2:18 PM MST, 26 minutes earlier.

SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
200 PM MST MON JUL 8 1996

DEWPOINT HOLDING AT 60 AND HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS NOW OVR MTNS...SO
JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE STORMS MOVE INTO VALLEYS. BEST STORMS
UP IN ZONE 25 AND WEST OF FHU...WITH CELL MOTION NWLY. CAPE NOW
1100 SO SOME STORMS MAY ALSO GO SEVERE IN ADDITION TO FLASH FLOODING.
STORMS MAY PUSH WELL OUT IN VALLEY...POSSIBLY TO PHX BY LATE TONIGHT.
STILL HAVE NOT SEEN ANY SIG ORGANIZATION TO THIS YET.

COUNTING ON SIG EVENT TODAY HAVE LOWERED POPS FOR TUE...ALTHOUGH
THIS MAY NOT HOLD TRUE WITH ALL THE DYNAMICS ALSO AVAILABLE.

TUS 5333

TUS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ZONES 21-26 TIL 1000 PM MST.

HOLBROOK

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.