Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1993, 3:42 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1993, 3:42 PM MST (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1993, 4:30 PM MST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yavapai County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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, May 16, 10:45 AM MST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
AZZALL-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 1045 AM MST SUN MAY 16 1993 ...ANOTHER ACTIVE THUNDERSTORM DAY IN ARIZONA... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP STATEWIDE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS SHOULD PROMOTE STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THAT COULD TRIGGER AREAS OF INTENSE RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL IN THE MOUNTAINS...AND BLOWING DUST ON THE DESERTS. THE MORE FAVORED AREAS FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT ARE THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND BASINS...THE NORTHERN PLATEAUS...AND SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. THOSE OUT AND ABOUT TODAY...INCLUDING BOATERS AND HIKERS...AND URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE AREA. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. DAMAGING WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING COULD STRIKE SUDDENLY... WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST FOREASTS AND UPDATES WHICH MAY INCLUDE WEATHER WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. VASQUEZ
Special weather statement, May 16, 10:52 AM MST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
AZZALL-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 1045 AM MST SUN MAY 16 1993 ...ANOTHER ACTIVE THUNDERSTORM DAY IN ARIZONA... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP STATEWIDE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND HUMID AIRMASS SHOULD PROMOTE STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THAT COULD TRIGGER AREAS OF INTENSE RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL IN THE MOUNTAINS...AND BLOWING DUST ON THE DESERTS. THE MORE FAVORED AREAS FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT ARE THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND BASINS...THE NORTHERN PLATEAUS...AND SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. THOSE OUT AND ABOUT TODAY...INCLUDING BOATERS AND HIKERS...AND URGED TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE AREA. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. DAMAGING WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING COULD STRIKE SUDDENLY... WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST FORE@ASTS AND UPDATES WHICH MAY INCLUDE WEATHER WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. VASQUEZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 5:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 55 min |
| May 16, 1:22 PM MST | Tornado Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 68 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.