Alert archive / Arizona / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this tornado warning at Jan 17, 1993, 2:02 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 1993, 2:02 PM MST (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 1993, 2:35 PM MST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maricopa County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHX 172104 TORPHX AZC013-172135- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX ARIZONA 202 PM MST SUN JAN 17 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 235 PM MST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...EAST MARICOPA COUNTY THE TOWER AT FALCON FIELD REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE CHANDLER AREA APPROACHING THE GROUND. THE FUNNEL IS LIKELY TO TOUCH DOWN IN CHANDLER... MESA OR GILBERT... AND IS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. GET AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM...HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH...BED OR OTHER STRONG PIECE OF FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO PROTECT AGAINST FLYING GLASS TORNADOES DESTROY MOBILE HOMES. IF YOU ARE IN A TRAILER PARK...GO TO THE PLACE DESIGNATED AS THE STORM SHELTER...OR ANY STRONG BUILDING. IF YOU CANT FIND A REINFORCED BUILDING...GET IN A DITC(H OR CULVERT. LOVEGROVE/CARPENTER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 17, 12:53 PM MST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
1250 PM MST SUN JAN 17 1993
MST PATH # PERSONS EST. DAMAGE CHARACTER
PLACE DATE TIME L W KILL. INJ. PROP. CROPS OF STORM
S CNTRL ARIZ 01/17 1224M FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY SCOTTSDALE
(EAST CENTRAL TOWER.
MARICOPA COUNTY
01/17 1226M ? ? ? 1? ? 0 TORNADO(F1)
TORNADO NEAR SHEA AND 112TH STREET
NUMEROUS ROOFS CAVED IN...DEBRIS IN ROADS
POWER LINES DOWN. UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF
MAN IN WHEELCHAIR TRAPPED BY DOWNED LINES
LOVEGROVEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 4:35 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila, Navajo | 4 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:35 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Coconino, Yavapai | 4 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:35 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 4 hr |
| Jan 17, 8:20 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Coconino, Gila, Yavapai | 7 hr |
| Jan 17, 8:20 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 7 hr |
| Jan 17, 8:20 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Navajo | 7 hr |
| Jan 17, 8:20 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Apache | 7 hr |
| Jan 17, 12:32 PM MST | Tornado Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 28 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.