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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Tucson, AZ

July 3, 1996Santa Cruz County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1996, 3:30 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 45 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 3, 1996, 3:30 PM MST (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1996, 4:15 PM MST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Cruz County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1996-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 44 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-405 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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.

NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 2:16 PM MST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:16 PM MST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
215 PM MST TUE JUL 2 1996

CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN FIRING OVER THE RIM PAST FEW HOURS BUT
IS JUST STARTING TO GET UNDERWAY ACROSS THE REST OF SE AZ AS PARCELS
JUST BEGINNING TO BREAK THROUGH CAP. SOUNDING PROFILE VERY SIMILAR TO
YESTERDAY SO EXPECT MOST STORMS THIS EVENING TO BE THE GENERIC TYPE
LIKE YESTERDAY...I.E BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.

H5 HIGH PROGGED TO REMAIN OVER CO/NRN NM AT LEAST NEXT 5 DAYS SO
OUR MOIST MONSOON PATTERN WILL CONTINUE WITH THE USUAL SCT MAINLY
AFTN/EVE TSTMS. COLLINS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 4:49 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima, Pinal41 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.