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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Tucson, AZ

September 12, 1997Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 1997, 12:40 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 60 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
Sep 12, 1997, 12:40 PM MST (19:40 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1997, 1:40 PM MST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1997-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1002 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1997-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1002 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUS 121940
FFWTUS
AZC021-122040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1240 PM MST FRI SEP 12 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON AZ HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 140 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA

   ...SOUTHEASTERN PINAL COUNTY
 
AT 1240 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAIN FALLING ON THE
NORTH SIDE OF THE SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINS 3 MILES WEST OF SAN
MANUEL. AN ESTIMATED 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AS OF 1240 PM
WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR MORE OF RAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH 140 PM.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 11:24 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima61 min
Sep 12, 12:02 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCGraham63 min
Sep 12, 12:15 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima50 min
Sep 12, 1:46 PM MSTTornado WarningTWCPinal29 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.