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Flood Watch 2, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flood watch at Aug 7, 2022, 8:05 AM MST for 5 counties in Arizona. It took effect at Aug 7, 2022, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2022, 8:05 AM MST (15:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 7, 2022, 2:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2022, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cochise County, AZ, Graham County, AZ, Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 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 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Aug 7, 2:18 AM MST, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:18 AM MST, 5 hours 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 5:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 6:51 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 7:21 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Pima, Santa Cruz | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 7:27 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 7:46 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Pima, Santa Cruz | 40 min |
| Aug 6, 8:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 8:30 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Pima, Santa Cruz | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:41 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 9:09 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 9:34 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 56 min |
| Aug 6, 10:25 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 65 min |
| Aug 6, 10:43 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 2:13 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 21 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:44 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 1:49 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 2:53 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 52 min | |
| Aug 7, 3:51 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Greenlee | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 4:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 4:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 4:49 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Cochise | 41 min |
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.