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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 19, 2000Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2000, 6:05 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for . No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 2000, 6:05 PM MST (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2000, 6:00 PM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pima County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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 13 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KTWC 200108
FFWTWC
AZC019-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
605 PM MST SAT AUG 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY IN ARIZONA
  THIS WARNING EXPANDS AND EXTENDS EARLIER WARNING TO INCLUDE THE
  FOOTHILLS AREAS OF TUCSON.

* UNTIL 700 PM MST

* AT 600 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER THE WEST SIDE OF TUCSON AND IN THE FOOTHILLS AREA OF
  THE SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINS. RAINFALL UP TO TWO INCHES ARE LIKELY
  WITH THESE STORMS AND WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING OF WASHES AND
  STREETS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE ,NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
TUCSON.

LAT...LON 3224 11110 3218 11101 3228 11083 3235 11089

GLUECK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 5:10 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	5 min
Aug 19, 5:25 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	5 min
Aug 19, 5:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	28 min

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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.