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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 2, 2002Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2002, 4:12 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 2, 2002, 4:12 PM MST (23:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2002, 4:45 PM MST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pima County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2002-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 86 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 2002-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 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 022313
FFWTWC
AZC019-030045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
412 PM MST FRI AUG 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY IN ARIZONA

* UNTIL 545 PM MST

* AT 401 PM MST...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FLASH FLOOD OVER
  ARIVACA...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREEN VALLEY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY IN THE ARIVACA AREA THROUGH 5 PM. 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING UPGRADES AND REPLACES THE URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THIS AREA.

LAT...LON 3162 11149 3152 11139 3167 11116 3178 11127

PYTLAK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 4:13 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima92 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.