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Areal Flood Advisory 32, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 14, 2021, 3:51 AM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2021, 3:51 AM MST (10:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2021, 5:45 AM MST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 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
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 advisory 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 advisory went out at Jul 14, 2:35 AM MST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:35 AM MST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:11 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:27 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pinal | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 5:56 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:28 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:39 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pinal | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 7:11 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:15 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 7:54 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pinal | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 8:59 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 9:09 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 9:22 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 10:53 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pinal | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.