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Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Tucson, AZ

September 6, 2003Cochise County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 2003, 5:37 PM MST for Cochise 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 2003, 5:37 PM MST (00:37 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2003, 5:30 PM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cochise County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 00:00Z on 2003-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 875 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2003-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 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 070039
FFWTWC
AZC003-070130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
537 PM MST SAT SEP 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN COCHISE COUNTY IN ARIZONA
    THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF...TOMBSTONE

* UNTIL 630 PM MST

* AT 535 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF           
  TOMBSTONE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. ESTIMATED RADAR 
  RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
  FALLEN IN THE AREA BETWEEN TOMBSTONE TO CHARLESTON.


SMALL STREAMS...SECONDARY ROADS...AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES WILL FLOOD 
QUICKLY. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED AREA. THE ROAD AHEAD MAY BE 
UNDERMINED OR WASHED AWAY. ABANDON VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER 
IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 3184 11045 3134 11045 3135 10982 3184 10982

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 5:26 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPinal34 min
Sep 7, 2:33 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima, Santa Cruz57 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.