Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 1996, 7:01 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 59 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
- Sep 1, 1996, 7:01 PM MST (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 1996, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cochise County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 Sep 1, 2:21 PM MST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:21 PM MST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 220 PM MST SUN SEP 1 1996 12Z TUS SNDG SHOWG POTENTIAL FOR VRY EXPLOSIVE TRW- TNGT ALTHO THE SNDG IS STILL CAPPED. AMS TRYING TO WORK ON CAP WITH TRW POPPING UP ACRS NRN ZNS24/25..SRN ZN26 AND SERN ZN23. STLT PICS SHOWG LARGER AREA OF CU FIELD ACRS SE AZ THAN SAT AFTN. TRW LAST NGT JUST ACRS THE BORDER BACK BUILT INTO SRN ZNS23/26 AND WL PRBLY SEE THEM DO THAT AGN TNGT. POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR VRY STG WNDS..PSBLY SVR..AND BRIEF HVY RNGL WITH ABV NRML PW VALUES. WDLY SCT TRW TNGT ZNS24/26 AND WL ALSO ADD ZN23 TO WDLY SCT DUE TO UNEASY FEELING BY THIS FCSTR. BNDRY INTERACTION WL BE ONLY WAY TO GET THINGS GOING TUS AREA TNGT. SLGT CHC ERN PARTS ZNS21/22 TNGT. UPR HI SRN CA DRFTG E NXT 48 HRS INTO SRN NM OR TX BIG BEND AREA. LOW-LVL MSTR CONTG TO HANG ARND THRU TUE SO CONTD THREAT OF AFTN/EVE ISOLD TO WDLY SCT TRW. MOS TEMPS NOT TO BAD. TUS 2121. GLUECK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 1, 6:06 PM MST, 55 minutes before
AZZ026-020115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 605 PM MST SUN SEP 1 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTCENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM... AT 555 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENSON. THIS STORM HAS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY SINCE 530 PM AND IS PRODUCNG EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AS WELL AS WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN WITH RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 1.0 TO 2.0 INCHES IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. TRAVEL ALONG I-10 EAST OF BENSON AND HIGHWAY 80 NEAR ST. DAVID SHOULD BE AVOIDED UNTIL THIS STORM4 HAS DISSIPATED. MCCOLLUM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 5:12 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 63 min |
| Sep 1, 6:21 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 54 min |
| Sep 1, 7:22 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 2 hr |
| Sep 1, 9:10 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 2 hr |
| Sep 1, 11:17 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 43 min |
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.