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Flash Flood Warning 141, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 14, 2022Gila County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2022, 4:52 AM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 3 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 14, 2022, 4:52 AM MST (11:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2022, 8:18 AM MST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
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 11:52 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 (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Aug 14, 3:07 AM MST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 3:07 AM MST, 1 hour 45 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
Aug 13, 5:01 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		59 min
Aug 13, 5:22 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	38 min
Aug 13, 5:34 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		56 min
Aug 13, 5:39 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	4 hr
Aug 13, 5:54 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	4 hr
Aug 13, 6:16 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Yuma	44 min
Aug 13, 6:41 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Yuma	4 hr
Aug 13, 6:57 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		48 min
Aug 13, 7:24 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	66 min
Aug 13, 8:07 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	4 hr
Aug 13, 8:33 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	57 min
Aug 13, 8:37 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Yuma	38 min
Aug 13, 9:47 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa, Yuma	115 min
Aug 13, 10:19 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa	116 min
Aug 13, 10:57 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	4 hr
Aug 14, 12:36 AM MST	Flood Watch	PSR	La Paz	22 hr
Aug 14, 10:01 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	44 min
Aug 14, 2:05 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		40 min
Aug 14, 2:06 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		39 min
Aug 14, 2:25 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	50 min
Aug 14, 2:47 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		58 min
Aug 14, 2:58 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	4 hr
Aug 14, 3:09 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	51 min
Aug 14, 3:17 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Gila, Maricopa	43 min
Aug 14, 3:23 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	37 min
Aug 14, 3:36 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	4 hr
Aug 14, 3:48 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz	57 min
Aug 14, 3:50 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	55 min
Aug 14, 3:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	47 min
Aug 14, 4:02 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		43 min
Aug 14, 4:12 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 14, 4:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	32 min
Aug 14, 4:20 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz	55 min
Aug 14, 4:41 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	4 hr
Aug 14, 4:43 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	47 min
Aug 14, 4:50 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	40 min
Aug 14, 4:51 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	39 min
Aug 14, 4:57 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz	4 hr
Aug 13, 5:16 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Imperial	4 hr
Aug 13, 5:18 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Imperial	42 min
Aug 13, 6:05 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Imperial	4 hr
Aug 14, 1:22 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Riverside, San Bernardino	38 min
Aug 14, 1:50 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Riverside	40 min
Aug 14, 2:19 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Riverside	41 min
Aug 14, 3:18 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Riverside	57 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.