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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Phoenix, AZ

October 5, 2010Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 2010, 5:07 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 83 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 5, 2010, 5:07 PM MST (00:07 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2010, 6:30 PM MST
In force
83 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 234 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2010-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2010-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 6:31 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSRMaricopa, Pinal119 min
Oct 5, 7:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRPinal45 min
Oct 5, 7:42 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSR56 min
Oct 5, 7:52 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal38 min
Oct 5, 8:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa55 min
Oct 5, 8:47 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSRMaricopa, Pinal118 min
Oct 6, 12:09 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal66 min
Oct 6, 7:51 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR39 min
Oct 6, 10:08 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR37 min
Oct 6, 11:11 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR19 min
Oct 6, 11:55 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR50 min
Oct 6, 12:43 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR47 min
Oct 6, 1:03 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR42 min
Oct 6, 1:17 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa24 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.