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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Tucson, AZ

September 9, 2005Cochise County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 2005, 12:38 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 37 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
Sep 9, 2005, 12:38 PM MST (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Sep 9, 2005, 1:15 PM MST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cochise County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 12:00Z on 2005-09-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 192 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2005-09-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 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
192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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 091941
FFWTWC
AZC003-092115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1238 PM MST FRI SEP 9 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA

* UNTIL 215 PM MST

* AT 1238 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR BENSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED 
DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED 
ROADWAY DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A NORMALLY 
DRY WASH FILLED WITH RUNNING WATER. 

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

LAT...LON 3197 11041 3183 11028 3193 11013 3206 11025

$$

WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS75 KTWC 092013
FFSTWC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
112 PM MST FRI SEP 9 2005

AZC003-092115-
COCHISE AZ-
112 PM MST FRI SEP 9 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM MST FOR WEST CENTRAL
COCHISE COUNTY...

AT 110 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP 
SOUTHWEST OF BENSON AND MOVE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH INTO THE CITY. 
RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 1.00 AND 1.75 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 80 
BETWEEN BENSON AND SAINT DAVID. 

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS NORMALLY DRY WASHES...ROADWAY DIPS...AND 
OTHER LOW LYING AREAS FILLED WITH RUNNING WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. DO 
NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

ELSEWHERE...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN 
EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM MST.


LAT...LON 3197 11041 3183 11028 3193 11013 3206 11025

$$

WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
000 
WGUS75 KTWC 092046
FFSTWC

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
146 PM MST FRI SEP 9 2005

AZC003-092115-
COCHISE AZ-
146 PM MST FRI SEP 9 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM MST FOR WEST CENTRAL
COCHISE COUNTY...

AT 145 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 
WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG HIGHWAY 90 BETWEEN INTERSTATE 10 AND 
KARTCHNER CAVERNS...AS WELL AS ALONG SIBYL ROAD NORTH OF SAINT 
DAVID. STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TO THE SOUTHWEST OF BENSON AND 
SAINT DAVID...THEN MOVE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH ACROSS BOTH TOWNS. 

WEATHER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1.25 AND 2.00 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY ALONG HIGHWAY 80 BETWEEN 
BENSON AND SAINT DAVID AND THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 90 AND 
INTERSTATE 10. 

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS NORMALLY DRY WASHES...ROADWAY DIPS...AND 
OTHER LOW LYING AREAS FILLED WITH RUNNING WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. DO 
NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 
RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

ELSEWHERE...AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN 
EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM MST.

LAT...LON 3197 11041 3187 11042 3183 11028 3193 11013
      3206 11025

$$

WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 9, 2:09 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCCochise36 min
Sep 9, 3:38 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCCochise67 min
Sep 9, 4:01 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima59 min
Sep 9, 4:45 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima30 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.