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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 28, 1986Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1986, 8:50 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 70 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1986, 8:50 PM MST (03:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1986, 10:00 PM MST
In force
70 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Maricopa County, AZ

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1986-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1284 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1986-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1284 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 28, 3:12 PM MST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
310 PM MST THU AUG 28 1986

AT 300 PM MST RADAR AND SATELLITE PHOTOS SHOWED TWO MAIN AREAS OF
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER ARIZONA.  ONE AREA IS IN A LINE
FROM THE GRAND CANYON SOUTHWEST TO THE COLORADO RIVER JUST NORTH
OF YUMA.  THESE STORMS..SOME HEAVY..ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA NORTHWEST
OF PRESCOTT..ARE MOVING TO THE WEST NORTHWEST.

THE SECOND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA
GENERALLY IN A LINE FROM THE HAYDEN/WINKLEMAN AREA SOUTHWESTWARD INTO
PIMA COUNTY JUST WEST OF TUCSON.  THESE STORMS ARE ALSO MOVING TO THE
WEST NORTHWEST.

SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED NORTHWEST OF PHOENIX IN THE
VICINITY OF LAKE PLEASANT..AS WELL AS SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY IN THE
FLORENCE AREA.  THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE PHOENIX METROPOLITIN AREA
FROM THE SOUTHEAST LATER THIS EVENING.
>
ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS.  THEY MAY
PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..BLOWING DUST..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..HAIL..
OR HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCAL FLOODING.  PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS.  YOU
SHOULD PREPARE TO TAKE SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA.

FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRENT.

HOADLEY 8/28 1510
Local storm report, Aug 28, 8:09 PM MST, 41 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
815 PM MST THU AUG 28 1986

TIME/DATE        LOCATION           EVENT

1900-1915 MST   SCOTTSDALE          POWER LINES AND LARGE TREES DOWN
AUGUST 28 1986  NEAR BORDER WITH    ..ALSO ONE SHED BLOWN OVER AND A
                TEMPE               DUMPSTER BLOWN INTO THE STREET.
                                    HEAVY RAIN AND CONSIDERABLE STREET
                                    FLOODING SOUZTH SIDE OF SCOTTSDALE.

TENHARKEL WSFO PHX 08/29/86 0310Z

The office that day

Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 6:40 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa80 min
Aug 28, 8:50 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRMaricopa6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.