Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 1997, 4:57 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 63 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
- Aug 13, 1997, 4:57 PM MST (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1997, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 63 min
- 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 23:59 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 12:00Z, 12.0 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
- 315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 132357 FFWTUS AZC019-140100- BULLETIN FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 457 PM MST WED AUG 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA ...NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY AT 455 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM A STRONG STORM OVER WESTERN TUCSON...WITH ANOTHER AREA OF FLOODING RAINFALL NEAR SABINO CANYON. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD!
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, Aug 13, 11:39 AM MST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
AZZ019-026>030-132300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SOUTHEAST ARIZONA CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1145 AM MST WED AUG 13 1997...THIS PRODUCT IS NOT UPDATED
AREAL PROBABILITY RAIN GREATER THAN STORM
COVERAGE OF SEVERE 1.00 2.00 MOTION
COCHISE 40 20 20 10 E 10
GRAHAM 30 20 20 10 E 10
GREENLEE 40 20 20 10 E 10
TUCSON/ERN PIMA 20 10 10 10 E 10
TOHONO OODHAM 20 10 10 10 E 10
WESTERN PIMA 10 10 10 0 E 10
SOUTHEAST PINAL 20 20 20 10 E 10
SANTA CRUZ 30 20 20 10 E 10
SYNOPSIS...
THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TODAY IS THE GREATEST OVER FAR
SOUTHEASTERN AZ...ESPECIALLY COCHISE COUNTY. HOWEVER...SATELLITE
DOES SHOW SOME DRYING GOING ON IN MEXICO SOUTHEAST OF DOUGLAS. SO
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS...BUT MAY HAVE A
HARD TIME MOVING INTO THE VALLEY LOCATIONS. THERE IS ENOUGH
INSTABILITY THAT THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
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KEY...
AREAL COVERAGE - PERCENT OF COUNTY OR AREA THAT WILL EXPERIENCE
THUNDERSTORMS
PROB OF SEVERE - THE PROBABILITY THAT ANY ONE OF THE STORMS WILL
REACH SEVERE LEVELS (DAMAGING WIND AND/OR
LARGE HAIL)
RAIN GRTR THAN - THE PROBABILITY THAT ANY ONE OF THE STORMS WILL
PRODUCE RAIN EXCEEDING 1 INCH OR 2 INCHES IN
ANY LOCATION
STORM MOTION - GENERAL DIRECTION TO WHICH THE STORMS WILL
LIKELY MOVE AND SPEED IN MPH
NOTE...
VALID TIME IS FROM 12 NOON TO 12 MIDNIGHT OF THE DAY OF ISSUANCE
THIS PRODUCT IS NOT TO BE USED IN PLACE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR
FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS OR WATCHES. THIS PRODUCT IS ONLY USED FOR
OUTLOOK PURPOSES.
END/The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:04 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pinal | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 4:04 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 4:32 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 58 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.