Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 1:55 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 75 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1996, 1:55 PM MST (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1996, 3:10 PM MST
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 9:00 AM MST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 9:00 AM MST, 4 hours 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:28 PM MST, 27 minutes before
AZZ013-142130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 128 PM MST WED AUG 14 1996 ...GROWING THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN GILA COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 125 PM MST...FLAGSTAFF DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A GROWING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF YOUNG. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST...AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE PASSING OVER STATE HIGHWAY 288 IN THE SIERRA ANCHAS MOUNTAINS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL WITH THIS STORM HAS REACHED ALMOST ONE INCH DURING THE PAST HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. PEREZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 3:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Gila | 90 min |
| Aug 14, 4:21 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 89 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.