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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 14, 1996Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1996, 9:29 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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: Jul 14, 1996, 9:29 PM MST (04:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1996, 10:30 PM MST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Whole counties

County Maricopa County, AZ

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 9:49 PM MST	Thunderstorm Wind 51	Waddell, 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 nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, Jul 14, 6:41 PM MST, 2 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
640 PM MST SUN JUL 14 1996

TIME(MST)   .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
            ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0510 P.M.   6.5 SE OF GLOBE           AZ   TORNADO
07/14/96    GILA                           TORNADO LIFTED A TRAILER
                                           OFF ITS FOUNDATION...AND
                                           DAMAGED THREE OR FOUR
                                           OTHERS IN THE ALHAMBRA
                                           MOBILE HOME PARK.

NC/150140Z

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 5:31 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	Gila	99 min
Jul 14, 5:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Gila	99 min
Jul 14, 5:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	65 min
Jul 14, 7:07 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Pinal	63 min
Jul 14, 8:10 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	80 min
Jul 14, 8:55 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	Maricopa	65 min
Jul 14, 10:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.