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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 3, 1996Gila County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1996, 3:26 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 1996, 3:26 PM MST (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1996, 4:10 PM MST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Gila County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 1996-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 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 1996-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-405 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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 Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 6:08 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai42 min
Jul 3, 11:15 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Gila60 min
Jul 3, 4:51 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZYavapai59 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.