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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Tucson, AZ
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.
- 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
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/TUCSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2:09 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 36 min |
| Sep 9, 3:38 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 67 min |
| Sep 9, 4:01 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 59 min |
| Sep 9, 4:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 30 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.