Alert archive / Arizona / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this tornado warning at Aug 30, 1993, 2:53 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 1993, 2:53 PM MST (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 1993, 4:00 PM MST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cochise County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUS 302156 TORTUS AZC003-302300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 253 PM MST MON AUG 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA ...SOUTHWESTERN COCHISE COUNTY AT 251 PM MST THE COCHISE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT REPORTED 3 FUNNEL CLOUDS SIGHTED HALF WAY BETWEEN SIERRA VISTA AND BISBEE...NEAR HWY 92. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR A6ND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
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
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 12:46 PM MST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
AZC003-019-023-302145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 1246 PM MST MON AUG 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MIRANA AND TOMBSTONE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF ARIZONA UNTIL 9 PM MST... AT 1240 PM MST...WEATHER RADAR IN PHOENIX AND TUCSON INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ONGOING ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF MIRANA IN NORTHEAST PIMA COUNTY WITH ANOTHER 5 MILES EAST OF TOMBSTONE IN COCHISE COUNTY. THESE STORMS APPEARED CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTINING...AND SMALL HAIL. BOTH WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH SLOWLY AT ABOUT 5 MPH. RESIDENTS IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS ARE URGED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTIONS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING UP THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST ARIZONA...WITH BUILDUPS VISIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS AROUND TUCSON. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY. MEYER
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 12:46 PM MST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
AZC003-019-023-302145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 1246 PM MST MON AUG 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MIRANA AND TOMBSTONE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF ARIZONA UNTIL 9 PM MST... AT 1240 PM MST...WEATHER RADAR IN PHOENIX AND TUCSON INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ONGOING ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF MIRANA IN NORTHEAST PIMA COUNTY WITH ANOTHER 5 MILES EAST OF TOMBSTONE IN COCHISE COUNTY. THESE STORMS APPEARED CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTINING...AND SMALL HAIL. BOTH WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH SLOWLY AT ABOUT 5 MPH. RESIDENTS IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS ARE URGED TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTIONS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING UP THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST ARIZONA...WITH BUILDUPS VISIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS AROUND TUCSON. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY. MEYER
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.