Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1996, 5:03 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 31, 1996, 5:03 PM MST (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1996, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 31, 2:28 PM MST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:28 PM MST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 225 PM MST SAT AUG 31 1996 STLT PICS THIS AFTN SHOWG ISOLD TRW- DVLPG ACRS NRN ZN25 AND ACRS ERN AND SWRN ZN26. AMS VRY UNSTBL EVEN WITH ALL THE MID-LVL DRYING THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE PAST 24 HRS. STUBBORN LOW-LVL MSTR CONTS WITH DWPTS MOST LCTNS IN THE 60S. AGREE WITH PHX THAT THEIR CONTS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR VRY STG TRW- TNGT..ALTHO AREAL WL BE ISOLD. ALREADY SEEING POTENTIAL WI\TH VRY STG TRW- S OF HUACHUCAS IN NRN MEX. SEE NO CHGS NXT 2 DAYS WITH ISOLD/WDLY SCT TRW- CONTG WITH LOW-LVL MSTR STAYING ARND. UPR HI SRN CA MOVG ACRS SRN AZ SUN INTO SWRN NM ON MON WITH A RETURN TO SLY FLO. TUS 111. GLUECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 5:03 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 57 min |
| Aug 31, 5:49 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Graham | 56 min |
| Aug 31, 10:26 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 2 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.