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Flood Watch 2, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flood watch at Aug 7, 2022, 3:24 AM MST for Gila County, Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It took effect at Aug 7, 2022, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2022, 3:24 AM MST (10:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 7, 2022, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2022, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Gila County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:25 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 519 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 7, 2:53 AM MST, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:53 AM MST, 31 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 10:28 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 10:45 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 11:29 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 2:19 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 21 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:49 AM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | La Paz | 86 min |
| Aug 7, 2:02 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 43 min | |
| Aug 7, 2:57 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 48 min | |
| Aug 7, 3:44 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Gila | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 4:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila, Pinal | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 4:36 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Gila | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 2:49 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Riverside | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 2:53 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Riverside, San Bernardino | 3 hr |
Nearby
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.