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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 29, 1996Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 10:44 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 29, 1996, 10:44 PM MST (05:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1996, 11:45 PM MST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Maricopa County, AZ

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 29, 11:10 PM MSTThunderstorm Wind 61Gila Bend, AZ
Aug 29, 11:20 PM MSTThunderstorm Wind 60Gila Bend, 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, 5.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1996-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 868 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 1996-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 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
868 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 5:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal60 min
Aug 29, 6:25 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRPinal50 min
Aug 29, 7:12 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRPinal63 min
Aug 29, 8:52 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa68 min
Aug 29, 9:55 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa50 min
Aug 29, 11:45 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa60 min
Aug 29, 11:45 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.