Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2004, 1:07 PM MST for Graham County, Arizona. It was in force for 113 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 13, 2004, 1:07 PM MST (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 3:00 PM MST
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Graham County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 132010
FFWTWC
AZC009-132300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
107 PM MST FRI AUG 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL GRAHAM COUNTY IN ARIZONA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SAFFORD
* UNTIL 400 PM MST
* AT 1257 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAFFORD...OVER THE NUTTAL FIRE BURN
AREAS. AREAS INCLUDE THE SEVERELY BURNED AREAS OF
FRYE...MARIJILDA...DEADMAN...AND NOON CREEKS. ANOTHER AREA OF
HEAVY RAINFALL IS LOCATED OVER THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS.
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 DITCHES OR STORM DRAINS.
LAT...LON 3290 10967 3290 11034 3245 11034 3246 10962
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 5:03 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 12:34 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 12:38 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 52 min |
| Aug 13, 1:50 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:16 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 3:19 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pinal | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 3:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 4:05 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 4:11 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 64 min |
| Aug 13, 4:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 45 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.