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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Tucson, AZ

July 25, 2002Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2002, 4:10 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 2002, 4:10 PM MST (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2002, 5:15 PM MST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pima County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 2002-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1410 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 2002-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -57 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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 
WGUS55 KTWC 252314
FFWTWC
AZC019-260115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
410 PM MST THU JUL 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY IN ARIZONA
  THIS IS FOR THE CATALINA MOUNTAINS INCLUDING THE BULLOCK BURN AREA

* UNTIL 615 PM MST

* AT 403 PM MST...AUTOMATED GAGES AND WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE CATALINA MOUNTAINS NEAR 
  MT. LEMMON/SUMMERHAVEN AND ALSO OVER THE BULLOCK BURN AREA. THE AREA 
  OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG 
THE MOUNT LEMMON HIGHWAY SINCE 330 PM AND THAT UP TO TWO INCHES HAS 
FALLEN OVER THE BULLOCK BURN AREA.

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...ROADS...AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES IS LIKELY.
THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP
TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY NEAR BURN AREAS.

LAT...LON 3236 11088 3236 11065 3253 11060 3251 11081

GLUECK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 4:14 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima2 hr

Nearby

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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.