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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this areal flood warning at Aug 24, 2015, 1:39 AM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2015, 1:39 AM MST (08:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2015, 7:30 AM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Pima County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KDMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 684 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Aug 23, 9:30 PM MST, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 9:30 PM MST, 4 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 23, 5:05 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pima | 40 min |
| Aug 23, 5:11 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 49 min | |
| Aug 23, 5:22 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 5:32 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pima | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 5:50 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pima | 25 min |
| Aug 23, 6:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 6:12 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pima | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 6:44 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pinal | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 6:54 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:13 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 7:30 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pima | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 7:49 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 26 min | |
| Aug 23, 7:51 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 114 min |
| Aug 23, 8:37 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 113 min |
| Aug 23, 8:43 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:50 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 40 min | |
| Aug 23, 9:06 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 114 min |
| Aug 23, 9:36 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 7:30 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
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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.