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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 31, 1995Santa Cruz County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1995, 5:22 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 1995, 5:22 PM MST (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1995, 6:00 PM MST
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Cruz County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 78 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
78 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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 010023 RRA
SVRTUS
AZC023-010100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
522 PM MST THU AUG 31 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
 
   ...WESTERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY INCLUDING RIO RICO AND NOGALES
 
AT 522 PM...A SPOTTER IN RIO RICO REPORTED A 68 MPH WIND GUST FROM A
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA EXTENDING SOUTHEAST TO THE PATAGONIA
MOUNTAINS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH.
 
WJM/ARB

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.

NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 31, 2:02 AM MST, 15 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:02 AM MST, 15 hours 20 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
230 AM MST THU AUG 31 1995

UPR HI NR 4 CORNERS TDA MOVG SLOLY EWD TO OK PANHANDLE IN 48 HRS.
THIS WILL SWITCH AIRFLOW FROM NELY TO SELY BRINGING IN MORE MSTR.
TDA LOOKS ABOUT LIKE YESTERDAY. ENOUGH MSTR AROUND FOR WDLY SCT
AFTN/EVE TSTMS. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF DYNAMICS TO HELP TRIGGER
ANY TSTMS SO IT WILL BE UP TO AFTN HEATING TO DO THE JOB. MORE
AND POSSIBLY STRONGER TSTMS FRI AS MSTR INCREASES AND ELY WAVE
IN TX APPROACHES SE AZ. MOS MAX TEMPS AGAIN TOO HI FOR TUS. ABOUT
THE SAME FOR MAX TEMPS TDA AS HGTS RMN THE SAME. LATES MRF SHOWS
NO END IN SIGHT FOR THE MONSOON.
TUS 232 COLLINS

.TUS...NONE.

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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.