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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2007, 7:20 PM MST for Graham County, Greenlee County, Arizona. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 14, 2007, 7:20 PM MST (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2007, 9:45 PM MST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Graham County, AZ, Greenlee County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 150222 FFWTWC AZC009-011-150415- /X.NEW.KTWC.FF.W.0003.070715T0220Z-070715T0415Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 720 PM MST SAT JUL 14 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL GRAHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SAFFORD... SOUTHERN GREENLEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... * UNTIL 915 PM MST * AT 714 PM MST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED RAINFALL RATES EXCEEDING TWO INCHES PER HOUR...CONFIRMING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLIFTON...SAFFORD AND SWIFT TRAIL JUNCTION. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 3254 10981 3254 10908 3312 10907 3291 10978 $$ WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON SMR
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS55 KTWC 150409 FFWTWC AZC009-011-150445- /X.EXT.KTWC.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070715T0445Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 909 PM MST SAT JUL 14 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL GRAHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SAFFORD... SOUTHERN GREENLEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... * UNTIL 945 PM MST * AT 859 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES PER HOUR CONTINUES TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. GIVEN THE AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL ALREADY RECEIVED AND SATURATED STATE OF THE GROUND IN THE WARNED AREA...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLIFTON...SAFFORD AND SWIFT TRAIL JUNCTION. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 3254 10981 3254 10908 3312 10907 3291 10978 $$ WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON SMR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham, Greenlee | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 7:13 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 38 min |
| Jul 15, 12:36 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Greenlee | 39 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.