Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2003, 6:55 PM MST for Cochise County, Pima County, 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2003, 6:55 PM MST (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2003, 7:30 PM MST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cochise County, AZ, Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KTWC 140157 FFWTWC AZC003-019-023-140330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 655 PM MST SUN JUL 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY IN ARIZONA EXRTEME SOUTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY IN ARIZONA NORTHEASTERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY IN ARIZONA * UNTIL 830 PM MST * AT 644 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MERGING THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUACHUCA CITY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIERRA VISTA...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. SONOITA...ELGIN...HUACHUCA CITY...AND KARCHNER CAVERNS STATE PARK ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM CLUSTER. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY NEAR DICTHES OR STORM DRAINS. LAT...LON 3158 11032 3187 11033 3188 11082 3158 11081 PYTLAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:22 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Pima | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 6:41 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 7:16 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 7:28 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 62 min |
| Jul 13, 7:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 44 min |
| Jul 13, 8:02 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 58 min |
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.