Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Phoenix, AZ

March 13, 1996Gila County, Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1996, 10:50 AM MST for Gila County, Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 1996, 10:50 AM MST (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 1996, 11:30 AM MST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gila County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 13, 11:05 AM MST	Hail 0.75	Cave Creek, AZ
Mar 13, 11:05 AM MST	Hail 1.5	Carefree, AZ

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 13, 10:10 AM MST, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 13, 10:11 AM MST, 39 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
1010 AM MST WED MAR 13 1996

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF SOUTH-CENTRAL AND
CENTRAL ARIZONA TODAY...

A POTENT WINTER STORM CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILL MOVE
SLOWLY EAST TODAY.  A MOIST SOUTHWESTERLY AIR FLOW HAS COMBINED WITH
COOLER AIR ALOFT TO CREATE AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL AND
CENTRAL ARIZONA.  ALREADY THIS MORNING...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE OCCURRED
IN THE GLOBE-MIAMI AREA AND PORTIONS OF THE GREATER PHOENIX
METROPOLITAN AREA.  LUKE AIR FORCE BASE REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL WITH A
THUNDERSTORM AROUND 915 AM.

AT 10 AM...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING MAINLY CENTRAL ARIZONA.  MOST OF THE ACTIVITY
WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHWEST GILA...NORTHERN MARICOPA...AND FAR
NORTHEAST PINAL COUNTIES.  INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP THE REMAINDER OF TODAY...AND WILL INCREASE IN BOTH AREAL
COVERAGE AND INTENSITY.  LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG, GUSTY
WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.

GREEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 10:55 AM MST	Tornado Warning	PSR	Maricopa	30 min
Mar 13, 11:30 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	45 min
Mar 13, 12:53 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.