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Flash Flood Warning 153, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 14, 2022La Paz County, Arizona; Riverside County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2022, 6:15 PM MST for La Paz County, Arizona; Riverside County, California. It was in force for 4 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, 6:15 PM MST (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2022, 10:15 PM MST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

Counties La Paz County, AZ, Riverside County, CA

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 14, 5:43 PM MST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
543 PM MST SUN AUG 14 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0532 PM     DUST STORM       3 WSW SANTAN            33.13N 111.85W
08/14/2022                   PINAL              AZ   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            WEBCAMS ALONG I-10 AND SR-347 SHOWED LESS
            THAN 1/4 MILE VISIBILITY WITH SIGNIFICANT
            IMPACTS TO TRAFFIC IN THE AREA.

&&

SB
Local storm report, Aug 14, 5:56 PM MST, 19 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:58 PM MST, 17 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 14, 5:59 PM MST, 16 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 14, 6:03 PM MST, 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 6:14 PM MST, 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 5:05 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRMaricopa, Pinal4 hr
Aug 14, 5:14 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal46 min
Aug 14, 5:18 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRMaricopa3 hr
Aug 14, 5:19 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRLa Paz56 min
Aug 14, 5:22 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSRPinal53 min
Aug 14, 5:33 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRMaricopa57 min
Aug 14, 5:46 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRLa Paz4 hr
Aug 14, 5:48 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRMaricopa4 hr
Aug 14, 5:58 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRPinal47 min
Aug 14, 6:08 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRMaricopa, Pinal3 hr
Aug 14, 6:14 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRLa Paz61 min
Aug 14, 6:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Yuma45 min
Aug 14, 6:31 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRMaricopa44 min
Aug 14, 6:35 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSRLa Paz, Yuma55 min
Aug 14, 6:46 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRMaricopa, Yuma3 hr
Aug 14, 6:53 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSRYuma67 min
Aug 14, 7:12 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRLa Paz4 hr
Aug 14, 7:18 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSRLa Paz, Yuma57 min
Aug 14, 7:19 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRLa Paz3 hr
Aug 14, 7:21 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSRLa Paz54 min
Aug 14, 7:40 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRLa Paz, Yuma3 hr
Aug 14, 7:50 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRLa Paz25 min
Aug 14, 7:51 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR24 min
Aug 14, 8:01 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSRYuma59 min
Aug 14, 8:56 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRYuma64 min
Aug 14, 9:46 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRYuma4 hr
Aug 15, 2:50 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR25 min
Aug 15, 4:41 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRGila49 min
Aug 14, 5:53 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRRiverside4 hr
Aug 14, 8:16 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRRiverside4 hr
Aug 15, 1:52 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRRiverside53 min
Aug 15, 2:33 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRRiverside4 hr
Aug 15, 2:36 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRRiverside39 min
Aug 15, 2:45 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRRiverside, San Bernardino45 min
Aug 15, 3:00 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatPSRRiverside, San Bernardino4 hr
Aug 15, 3:30 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRRiverside45 min
Aug 15, 4:43 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRRiverside47 min
Aug 15, 4:51 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRRiverside39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.