Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1992, 2:29 PM MST for Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1992, 2:29 PM MST (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1992, 4:30 PM MST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:20 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Pima, AZ |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 10, 1:11 PM MST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
AZC003-019-023-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 115 PM MST FRI JUL 10 1992 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR...SATELLITE PICTURES AND LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA. AT 1:00 PM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED MOST ANYWHERE IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. MOTORISTS AND PERSONS WITH OUTDOOR INTERESTS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. NWS TUS/CRIMMINS
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.