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Flash Flood Warning 117, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2022, 4:05 PM MST for Cochise 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 22, 2022, 4:05 PM MST (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2022, 7:15 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Flood severity
- None
County Cochise County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 22, 3:22 PM MST, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 3:22 PM MST, 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 21, 5:09 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 111 min |
| Aug 21, 5:17 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 118 min |
| Aug 21, 5:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham, Pinal | 50 min |
| Aug 21, 6:37 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 113 min |
| Aug 21, 6:50 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:56 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 94 min |
| Aug 21, 7:13 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 7:16 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pinal | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 7:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 55 min |
| Aug 21, 8:02 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 118 min |
| Aug 21, 8:16 PM MST | River Flood Warning | TWC | Greenlee | 34 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:20 PM MST | River Flood Advisory | TWC | Graham | 9 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 8:54 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:56 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 49 min |
| Aug 21, 8:59 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 9:26 PM MST | Areal Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 9:37 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 53 min |
| Aug 21, 9:50 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 5:25 AM MST | River Flood Warning | TWC | Graham | 45 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 3:24 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Greenlee | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 3:25 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Graham | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 21 min |
| Aug 22, 3:48 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 42 min |
| Aug 22, 4:16 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 4:46 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Cochise | 44 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.