Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1992, 2:16 PM MST for Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 1992, 2:16 PM MST (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1992, 3:15 PM MST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2:16 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 59 min |
Nearby
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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.