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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2016, 3:52 PM MST for Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 113 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 13, 2016, 3:52 PM MST (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2016, 5:45 PM MST
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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 (KDMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 1229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted.
019
WGUS55 KTWC 132252
FFWTWC
AZC019-021-140045-
/O.NEW.KTWC.FF.W.0029.160913T2252Z-160914T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
352 PM MST TUE SEP 13 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN PINAL COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA...
NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA...
* UNTIL 545 PM MST
* AT 347 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED
THAT TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PAST HOUR HAVE PRODUCED
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTY. UP TO TWO
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ESPECIALLY IN SADDLEBROOKE
RANCH COMMUNITY NORTHEAST OF ORACLE JUCTION. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
NORTHERN SECTION OF ORO VALLEY...ORACLE AND ORACLE JUNCTION.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
&&
LAT...LON 3247 11095 3247 11100 3264 11097 3265 11078
3252 11093
$$1 follow-up statement
420
WGUS75 KTWC 140001
FFSTWC
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
501 PM MST TUE SEP 13 2016
AZC019-021-140045-
/O.CON.KTWC.FF.W.0029.000000T0000Z-160914T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
PINAL-PIMA-
501 PM MST TUE SEP 13 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN PINAL AND NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTIES...
AT 456 PM MST...THE HEAVY RAINFALL THAT OCCURRED EARLIER WAS STILL
CAUSING RUNOFF AND ELEVATED FLOWS IN SMALL STREAMS AND WASHES IN THE
AREA. EVENTUALLY, THESE HIGHER FLOWS WILL SUBSIDE BUT UNTIL THEN
AVOID FLOODED AREAS SUCH AS LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ROADWAYS.
NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS MAY BE INUNDATED IN THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF ORO VALLEY...ORACLE AND ORACLE JUNCTION.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
&&
LAT...LON 3247 11095 3247 11100 3264 11097 3265 11078
3252 11093
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 5:25 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham, Pima, Pinal | 41 min |
| Sep 12, 5:42 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 33 min | |
| Sep 13, 1:13 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pinal | 32 min |
| Sep 13, 1:30 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 45 min |
| Sep 13, 3:00 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 4:06 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Graham | 39 min |
| Sep 13, 4:57 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Greenlee | 48 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.