Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2005, 9:45 AM MST for 4 counties in Arizona. It was in force for 45 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 14, 2005, 9:45 AM MST (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 10:30 AM MST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cochise County, AZ, Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1453 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 141648
FFWTWC
AZC003-019-021-023-141830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
945 AM MST SUN AUG 14 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN PIMA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...GREEN VALLEY...MADERA
CANYON...CATALINA
SOUTHEASTERN PINAL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA WESTERN
COCHISE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SIERRA VISTA
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NOGALES...PATAGONIA
* UNTIL 1130 AM MST
* AT 930 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING OVER A LARGE AREA
FROM THE CATALINA MOUNTAINS SOUTH TO MADERA CANYON AND JUST EAST
OF NOGALES. TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED RAINFALL RATES
ON THE ORDER OF ONE INCH PER HOUR WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN SONOITA REPORTED OVER TWO
INCHES OF RAIN FROM STORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA BEFORE 9 AM
MST. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS WEST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. PERSONS
IN PARTS OF TUCSON...GREEN VALLEY...AND ORO VALLEY WILL LIKELY SEE
STORMS MOVING THROUGH BY 11 AM MST.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SAN
MANUEL...SAHUARITA...ORACLE...MAMMOTH...CAMPO BONITO...BENSON AND
ALDER CANYON.
REMEMBER...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS AREAS
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
LAT...LON 3135 11109 3135 11044 3135 11012 3229 11016
3244 11046 3276 11047 3275 11095
$$
WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS75 KTWC 141723
FFSTWC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1020 AM MST SUN AUG 14 2005
AZC003-019-021-023-141830-
COCHISE AZ-SANTA CRUZ AZ-PIMA AZ-PINAL AZ-
1020 AM MST SUN AUG 14 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 AM MST FOR SOUTHEASTERN
PINAL...EASTERN AND CENTRAL PIMA...SANTA CRUZ AND WESTERN COCHISE
COUNTIES...
AT 1015 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED
AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR THREE POINTS TO QUEENS
WELL WEST OF TUCSON. OTHER FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING STORMS WERE LOCATED
NEAR GREEN VALLEY AND SAHUARITA SOUTH TO RIO RICO AND TUBAC.
MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS WEST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. MOST OF THE
STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING UP TO ONE INCH OF RAINFALL
PER HOUR.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TUCSON...
THREE POINTS...SAN MANUEL...QUEENS WELL...ORO VALLEY...
ORACLE...MARANA...MAMMOTH...CAMPO BONITO AND ALDER CANYON...AND
THREE POINTS.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS.
TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3154 11170 3134 11107 3135 11044 3135 11012
3229 11016 3244 11046 3276 11047 3272 11161
$$
WEATHER.GOV/TUCSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:19 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise, Pima, Santa Cruz | 26 min |
| Aug 14, 11:13 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 11:35 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 55 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.