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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 2000, 8:25 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 35 min. 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 6, 2000, 8:25 PM MST (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 9:00 PM MST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KTWC 070325 FFWTWC AZC023-070500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 825 PM MST SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST SANTA CRUZ COUNTY IN ARIZONA * UNTIL 10 PM MST * AT 825 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. THIS LINE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BY 9 PM. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL CAUSE PROLONGED FLASH FLOODING IN SOUTHEAST SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 10 PM MST. 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 3175 11084 3132 11086 3135 11045 3176 11046
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 5:35 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 7:01 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 7:30 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 7:57 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 31 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.