1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 13, 2:26 PM MST, 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 226 PM MST SAT AUG 13 2005 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER BAJA WILL SLOWLY LIFT ACROSS SOUTHERN ARIZONA LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. THIS WILL CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SUNDAY...MAINLY FROM TUCSON EAST. DRIER AIR HAS BEGUN TO SPREAD INTO THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY...AND AS ANOTHER DISTURBANCE MOVES DOWN THE CALIFORNIA COAST...AN INCREASE IN SOUTHWEST WINDS ALOFT WILL BRING THIS DRIER AIR INTO THE REST OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. BY MIDWEEK...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CONFINED TO THE MOUNTAINS. THIS RESPITE WILL BE BRIEF HAS HIGH PRESSURE REDEVELOPS OVER NEW MEXICO BY NEXT WEEKEND...WHICH WILL BEGIN TO FEED DEEPER MOISTURE BACK INTO THE REGION. && .DISCUSSION...WE ARE OFF AND RUNNING THIS AFTERNOON AS THE A PAIR OF DISTURBANCES LIFT N ALONG THE E SIDE OF THE BAJA UPPER LOW. THE WEAKER OF THE TWO TOUCHED OFF SOME STRONG TSTMS IN THE WHITES, WITH ONE CELL BRIEFLY GOING SEVERE ON US EARLIER. OUR MAIN CONCERN, THOUGH, IS WITH THE SECOND ONE LIFTING N THROUGH SONORA TOWARD THE E CWA. TSTMS HAVE BEEN DISORGANIZED SO FAR OVER COCHISE/SANTA CRUZ SINCE OUR LOW LEVEL FLOW IS SO WEAK. HOWEVER...EACH NEW TSTM THAT DEVELOPS HAS BEEN LOOKING A LITTLE STRONGER AND A LITTLE LONGER-LIVED BEFORE COLLAPSING. EXPECT TSTMS TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AS THIS FEATURE LIFTS INTO AN AREA WHERE UPPER JET DYNAMICS ARE QUITE FAVORABLE -- OVER FAR SE AZ AND SW NM. BUT BECAUSE THE INDIVIDUAL TSTMS WILL REMAIN PULSEY AND SOMEWHAT DISORGANIZED IN OUR VERY WEAK LOW LEVEL FLOW...HAVE OPTED TO CARRY +RA WORDING IN LIEU OF A WATCH IN ZONES 19/33/34/35. COCHISE COUNTY SHOULD BE THE MOST ACTIVE LOCATION WHERE WELL BUMP POPS UP TO NUMEROUS THIS EVENING. OUT WEST WHERE WELL BE LEAST ACTIVE, HAVE LOWERED TO ISOLATED WORDING. HOWEVER EVEN THAT MAY BE A BIT HIGH. ONE MORE RELATIVELY ACTIVE DAY IS EXPECTED SUN AS THE LOW ITSELF LIFTS/SHEARS ACROSS THE CWA. WITH THIS SONORA SHORT WAVE ALSO DRAGGING MUCH DRIER AIR N BEHIND IT...WE HAVE LOWERED POPS A LITTLE MORE W OF KTUS. DEPENDING ON THE EXACT TIMING OF THE PASSAGE...THE E CWA COULD AGAIN BE ACTIVE...WITH PERHAPS A LITTLE BETTER FLOW THAN THE 5KTS WE HAVE TODAY. THAT WILL BEAR WATCHING. AFTER THAT...THE WARMING AND DRYING ALOFT WILL DEEPEN AND OVERTAKE US AS THE DEVELOPING W COAST TROUGH INDUCES MODERATE SW FLOW. INITIALLY THE SW TURN WILL GIVE THE SOUTHERN WHITES AN UPSLOPE BOOST. BUT BY TUE AND ESPECIALLY WED...EVEN THOSE AREAS WILL SEE TSTM COVERAGE DROP TO ISOLATED. THE KEY POINT WITH THIS FIRST MONSOON LULL IN 4 WEEKS IS THAT THE MOISTURE WILL NOT ENTIRELY LEAVE. IT IS JUST GOING TO GET DIFFICULT TO TRIGGER VALLEY/DESERT TSTMS AS 500MB TEMPS WARM TO -3C AND UPPER FLOW BECOMES GENERALLY CONFLUENT. INSTEAD...DEWPOINTS WILL TEND TO REMAIN ON THE HIGH SIDE WHICH WILL HELP TO KEEP HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM GETTING TOO FAR OUT OF HAND. AS MENTIONED EARLIER...THE MONSOON BREAK DOES NOT LOOK LIKE IT WILL LAST VERY LONG...AND THE DEEP MOISTURE WILL NOT GET PUSHED TOO FAR TO THE S OR E. THE W EXTENSION OF THE BERMUDA HIGH IS QUITE STRONG...AND THE W COAST TROUGH WILL BE A TRANSITORY FEATURE AS THE WESTERLIES RETREAT BACK TOWARD THE CANADIAN BORDER. HAVE STARTED A TREND UPWARD FOR NEXT WEEKEND, ALBEIT STILL ABOUT 10 PERCENT BELOW CLIMO. && .AVIATION...TAF AND TWEBS ADEQUATELY COVER ALL SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AT KTUS. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && PYTLAK WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 1045 AM MST SAT AUG 13 2005 AZZ019-029>035-141400- NORTHERN GREENLEE COUNTY-UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-COCHISE COUNTY- SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTY-TUCSON METRO/MARANA/GREEN VALLEY- SANTA CRUZ COUNTY-TOHONO OODHAM NATION-WESTERN PIMA COUNTY- 1045 AM MST SAT AUG 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ARIZONA .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SYNOPSIS...A SUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF MOISTURE TO SUPPORT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAINED ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA TODAY. THIS MOISTURE SUPPLY WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT FARTHER EAST THIS COMING WEEK AS A DRY WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT DEVELOPS OVER THE REGION. THIS DRIER AIR WILL RESULT IN WARMER AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES AND A DAY-TO-DAY DECREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BY THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. DISCUSSION...MOISTURE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA REMAINED SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A LOW PRESSURE DISTURBANCE SPINNING OVER NORTHERN BAJA THIS MORNING WILL LIFT NORTHEAST TODAY PROVIDING SOME UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FOR ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF ABUNDANT MOISTURE...SURFACE HEATING...AND LARGE SCALE LIFT WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST PINAL...EASTERN PIMA...AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES EAST INTO SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO. DRIER AIR SPREADING INTO CENTRAL AND WESTERN PIMA COUNTY WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO ISOLATED FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL YESTERDAY...RATHER HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT... AND A WEAK STEERING FLOW...THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY LEAD TO RUNOFF PROBLEMS. THE AREAS OF CONCERN WILL BE ACROSS SANTA CRUZ...EASTERN PIMA...AND GRAHAM COUNTIES WHERE LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WERE REPORTED WITH YESTERDAYS STORMS. FROM TUCSON WEST...THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS DUE TO THE DRIER AIR SPREADING INTO THIS AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE A GRADUAL DECREASE IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS COMING WEEK AS A DRIER WESTERLY ALOFT ALOFT DEVELOPS OVER THE REGION. THIS DRIER AIRMASS WILL ALSO LEAD TO WARMER AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES BY THE MIDDLE OF THE WORK WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1228 PM MST SAT AUG 13 2005
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1218 PM HAIL 38 N MORENCI 33.60N 109.32W
08/13/2005 1.00 INCH GREENLEE AZ TRAINED SPOTTER
QUARTER SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND NEAR HANNAGAN
MEADOW
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PYTLAKThe Tucson radar (KEMX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:30 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain caused street flooding along Buffalo Solider Trailer and 7th Avenue near downtown Sierra Vista. A swift water rescue was performed on Calle Portal Road between Bluebrid Drive and Quail Run Road.
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