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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 3, 1993Cochise County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1993, 1:10 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1993, 1:10 PM MST (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1993, 2:15 PM MST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Cochise County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 12:00Z on 1993-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1993-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-451 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 8:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima2 hr
Aug 2, 8:10 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima2 hr
Aug 3, 1:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCCochise65 min

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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.