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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Tucson, AZ

July 29, 1997Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1997, 5:32 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 88 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
Jul 29, 1997, 5:32 PM MST (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1997, 7:00 PM MST
In force
88 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 00:35 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1997-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 804 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1997-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTUS 300034
FFWTUS
AZC019-300200-

BULLETIN
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
532 PM MST TUE JUL 29 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON AZ HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA

   ...NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAN MANUEL TO EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE
TUCSON METROPOLITAN AREA. RADAR DERIVED RAINFALL ESTIMATES
INDICATED THAT UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE SANTA
CATALINA AND RINCON MOUNTAINS SINCE 5 PM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
SLOWLY WEST AND WILL MOVE THROUGH TUCSON BETWEEN 535 PM AND 7 PM.
p
OKULSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 6:57 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima63 min
Jul 29, 6:57 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima63 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.