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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 5, 1996Gila County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 6:05 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 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
Jul 5, 1996, 6:05 PM MST (01:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1996, 7:10 PM MST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Gila County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 968 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
968 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:00 PM MST, 5 hours 5 minutes before
AZZ015-017>018-021-061200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
100 PM MST FRI JUL 5 1996

...A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI INDICATED THAT
THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IMPLY STRONG...POSSIBLY DAMAGING...WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO
USUALLY ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

PERSONS OUT AND ABOUT IN FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ARE URGED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS. IF
THREATENING LOOKING WEATHER APPROACHS YOUR AREA...SEEK SAFE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

FRANJEVIC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 6:05 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRGila65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.