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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 10, 1996Gila County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1996, 4:55 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 10, 1996, 4:55 PM MST (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1996, 6:00 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 12:00Z, 11.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1996-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:15 PM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AZZ015>026-111200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
130 PM MST WED JUL 10 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS MOST OF
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA IS VERY MOIST AND THE
WINDS ALOFT ARE LIGHT...SO THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY.
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THIS AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. ALSO...A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY
PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

PERSONS IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA ARE URGED TO PAY CLOSE
ATTENTION TO WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS...AND STAY TUNE TO THE LATEST
FORECASTS IN THE EVENT WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE NEEDED.

BERKOVITZ

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.