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Flash Flood Warning 88, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 1996, 6:07 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 3, 1996, 6:07 PM MST (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 1996, 8:15 PM MST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pima County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUS 040106 FFWTUS AZC019-040315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 607 PM MST TUE SEP 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...WESTERN PIMA COUNTY AT 6 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER WESTERN PIMA COUNTY BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF WHY AND LUKEVILLE OVER HIGHWAY 85. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF BETWEEN ONE TWO INCHES PER HOUR. MOTORISTS ON HIGHWAY 85 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR FLASH FLOODING OF` ROADWAY DIPS AND WASHES. BRYANT
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.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 3, 2:16 PM MST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 2:16 PM MST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 220 PM MST TUE SEP 3 1996 ADVECTION OF MOISTURE OUT OF THE GULF OF CA CONTINUES UNABATED. KYUX VWP SHOWS DEPTH OF SLY FLOW UP TO 6K FEET. THIS MEANS AMS OVR SE AZ TO REMAIN VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AS THIS MOIST FLOW SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATING. ALSO MOISTURE FROM T.S. ELIDA JUST OFF THE SRN COAST OF BAJA CA MIGHT BECOME A PLAYER LATER IN THE WEEK AS UPR TROF OVR PAC NW COULD CAUSE ELIDA TO RECURVE INTO AZ. IF SO THIS COULD PRODUCE A WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT. SO THE REST OF THE WEEK LOOKS TO BE VERY ACTIVE. WITH TSTMS CAPABLE OF POPPING UP JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE DEPENDING ON WHERE OUTFLOW BOUNDRIES MOVE WILL BROADBRUSH THE FORECAST WITH SCT TSTM COVERAGE. TUS 3333. COLLINS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 5:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Greenlee | 59 min |
| Sep 3, 6:54 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 66 min |
| Sep 3, 6:54 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 66 min |
| Sep 3, 10:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 59 min |
| Sep 3, 10:55 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 11:20 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.