Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Tucson, AZ

Issued

Aug 27, 1996, 4:30 PM MST (23:30 UTC)

Expired

Aug 27, 1996, 5:45 PM MST

In force

75 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 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KTUS 272329
FFWTUS
AZC019-280045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
430 PM MST TUE AUG 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY
 
...INCLUDING THE TUCSON METRO AREA...
 
AT 429 PM MST...TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
LOCATED 5 MILES WEST..SOUTHWEST OF TUCSON BETWEEN TUCSON AND OLD
TUCSON.  THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH TOWARD
OLD TUCSON...RYAN FIELD...THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PART OF THE
TUCSON METRO...AND HIGHWAY 86 SOUTHWEST OF TUCSON.
 
THIS STORM WAS ALSO PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN FROM DOWNTOWN
TUCSON SOUTHWEST TO OLD TUCSON.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 57
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLmY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
DRB/WJM

NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 27, 2:21 PM MST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
220 PM MST TUE AUG 27 1996

LOOKS LIKE AN ACTIVE DAY HERE IN THE SE. PLENTY OF LOW-LEVEL MSTR
IN PLACE AS GULF SURGE CONTINUES. PW VALUES OF 1.5 IN. ON SPECIAL
18Z SOUNDING AND DEW POINTS HOLDING IN THE MID 60S EARLY THIS
AFTN. EXPECT WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY THIS AFTN AND EVE OVER CWA.
OTHER ORGANIZED STORMS PROPAGATING SOUTH AND WEST OFF THE RIM MAY
MOVE OVER EASTERN PART OF CWA LATE THIS AFTN THEN INTO WESTERN
PART OF CWA TONIGHT. MODIFIED MEAN CAPE OF ABOUT 1700 J/KG...
LI OF -7...AND DRY AIR IN UPPER LEVELS...SO SVR WX DEFINITELY A
POSSIBILITY.

BROAD UPPER HIGH NOW IN PLACE AT H5 WILL BECOME MORE ORGANIZED
OVER 4 CORNERS THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS WITH H5 FLOW BECOMING MORE
EASTERLY. MODELS SHOW 70-90 PERCENT RH AT H7 FOR WED AND THU SO
IT LOOKS LIKE LACK OF MSTR WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM. WIDESPREAD
ACTIVITY TODAY HOWEVER COULD RESULT IN JUST WIDELY SCATTERED WED
IF LOWER ATMOSPHERE STABILIZES ENOUGH...WITH POSSIBLY A MORE
ACTIVE DAY ON THURSDAY. BUT WILL LEAVE POPS AS THEY ARE BASED ON
AMOUNT OF MOISTURE.
TUS 4333.

T/SCHOWENGERDT

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.