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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 29, 1995Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1995, 2:04 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 1995, 2:04 PM MST (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1995, 2:45 PM MST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Whole counties

County Pima County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1208 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUS 292105 RRA
SVRTUS
AZC019-292145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
204 PM MST TUE AUG 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY
 
AT 200 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES
SOUTH OF GREEN VALLEY. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 10
MPH. THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE GREATER TUCSON AREA.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 57
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
MCCOLLUM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 4:22 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	53 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.