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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tucson, AZ

September 5, 2012Greenlee County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this special weather statement at Sep 5, 2012, 6:30 PM MST for Greenlee County, Arizona. It was in force for 30 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 5, 2012, 6:30 PM MST (01:30 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2012, 7:00 PM MST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ

County Greenlee County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 5, 6:30 PM MST, 0 minutes before

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<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
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        Please try again in a few minutes.
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        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 5:33 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Sep 6, 12:13 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise	2 hr
Sep 6, 12:55 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Sep 6, 1:19 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise, Pima, Santa Cruz	116 min
Sep 6, 1:39 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	2 hr
Sep 6, 1:48 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Sep 6, 2:06 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	84 min
Sep 6, 2:30 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima, Santa Cruz	2 hr
Sep 6, 2:48 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	117 min
Sep 6, 2:50 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	3 hr
Sep 6, 2:55 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Santa Cruz	35 min
Sep 6, 3:04 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Santa Cruz	116 min
Sep 6, 3:17 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	24 min
Sep 6, 3:36 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	114 min
Sep 6, 4:05 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz	6 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.