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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tucson, AZ

July 17, 2005Cochise County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2005, 5:21 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
Jul 17, 2005, 5:21 PM MST (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2005, 5:00 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), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 2005-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 281 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 2005-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
281 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 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 180027
FFWTWC
AZC003-180100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
521 PM MST SUN JUL 17 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM MST

* AT 525 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER PARTS OF SIERRA VISTA      
  SOUTH TO NICKSVILLE AND HEREFORD. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS SOUTH  
  AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THIS STORM WAS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE 
  HAIL. 

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 3153 11009 3158 11030 3134 11041 3134 11008

$$

WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 5:02 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise, Pima45 min
Jul 17, 5:57 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCCochise3 min
Jul 18, 4:11 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise38 min
Jul 18, 4:39 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCGraham40 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.