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Areal Flood Warning 10, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 30, 2021Gila County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this areal flood warning at Jul 30, 2021, 7:28 AM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 13 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: Jul 30, 2021, 7:28 AM MST (14:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2021, 8:30 PM MST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:28 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

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Jul 30, 4:55 AM MST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 4:55 AM MST, 2 hours 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 6:17 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Jul 29, 8:02 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Gila	6 hr
Jul 30, 12:36 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz	24 min
Jul 30, 1:03 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		27 min
Jul 30, 1:19 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	La Paz	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:24 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		36 min
Jul 30, 2:59 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		31 min
Jul 30, 4:43 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		32 min
Jul 30, 4:50 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Gila	69 min
Jul 30, 2:01 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Imperial	29 min
Jul 30, 3:11 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Imperial	5 hr
Jul 30, 3:45 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Riverside	30 min
Jul 30, 3:55 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Riverside, San Bernardino	4 hr
Jul 30, 4:20 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Imperial	25 min
Jul 30, 4:37 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Riverside	23 min
Jul 30, 4:48 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Imperial	27 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.