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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 2026, 2:17 PM 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
- Sep 12, 2026, 2:17 PM MST (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2026, 4:48 PM 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 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 5:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila | 29 min |
| Sep 11, 10:03 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila, Maricopa | 27 min |
| Sep 11, 10:48 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 42 min | |
| Sep 11, 11:00 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 30 min | |
| Sep 11, 11:01 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 29 min | |
| Sep 11, 11:19 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 26 min | |
| Sep 11, 11:32 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 43 min | |
| Sep 12, 12:10 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 35 min | |
| Sep 12, 12:53 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Maricopa | 37 min |
| Sep 12, 3:07 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 113 min |
| Sep 12, 4:00 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Maricopa | 45 min |
| Sep 12, 4:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 20 min |
| Sep 12, 4:34 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 3 hr |
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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.