Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Tucson, AZ

Issued

Aug 1, 1996, 11:30 PM MST (06:30 UTC)

Expired

Aug 2, 1996, 12:30 AM MST

In force

60 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 06:32 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 020631
FFWTUS
AZC019-020730-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
1130 PM MST THU AUG 1 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
 
   ...EASTERN PIMA COUNTY
 
AT 1126 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR OLD
TUCSON AND RYAN FIELD ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUCSON. THIS STORM WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY WITH DEVELOPMENT CONTINUING. VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH
DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHxICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
MEYER

NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 1, 8:52 PM MST, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
900 PM MST THU AUG 01 1996

00Z TUS SOUNDG ON THE STABLE SIDE AND NO SVR WX IN CWA SO FAR
TNGT. THOUGH...SOME HEAVY RAINERS GENERATED BY OUTFLOW FRM THE
RIM. ANOTHER LINE OF TSTMS IN NW MEX MOVG OVR THE SRN GLF AREA.
DOUGLAS STILL ON A NWWD TRACK WITH MID-UPR LVL MSTR SPREADG AS
FAR N AS ABOUT 25N. FRI...PAC TROF PUSHES UPR HI SE OF TUS WITH
SLY WIND AT MID-UPR LVLS.  MODELS SHOW WK UPR LOW ALONG SRN ZNS
MOVG WWD AROUND BOTTOM OF HI.  CURRENT FCST BETTING ON GLF SURGE
MSTR TO MAKE IT INTO AREA FRI/FRI NGT.  WITH LESS CLDS...MORE HTG
AND DEFORMATION ZONE OVR SRN AZ SHOULD SEE MORE CONVECTIVE
ACTVTY. SAT...NEW ETA CONTINUING TREND OF PAC TROF PUSHG UPR HI
INTO SE NM. MID LVL FLOW S-SWLY. AVN SHOWG MINOR DECR IN
MSTR...BUT NOT SIGNIFICANT. WILL GO WITH STANDARD LOW GRADE
MONSOON. TUS 2242.

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.