Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Tucson, AZ

Issued

Aug 14, 1996, 5:31 PM MST (00:31 UTC)

Expired

Aug 14, 1996, 6:30 PM MST

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Tucson, AZ

Area

Whole counties

County Pima County, AZ

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KTUS 150030
SVRTUS
AZC019-150130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
531 PM MST WED AUG 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
 
   ...EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY FROM OLD TUCSON SOUTHWESTWARD TO
THREE POINTS. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA OF STORMS IS TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH.
RYAN FIELD...PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 86 AND THREE POINTS WILL ALL BE
AFFECTED BY THIS STORM.
 
STORMS TODAY HAVE PRODUCED A TORNADO IN NORTHWEST TUCSON AS
WELL AS 1.0 INCH HAIL...WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND EXTREMELY HEAVY
RAIN.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
MCCOLLUM
 
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NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 2:30 PM MST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
220 PM MST WED AUG 14 1996

SPECIAL 19Z TUS SOUNDG CONFIRMS SVR POTENTIAL FOR TDA/TGNT.
LOADED GUN TYPE WITH WELL MIXED LOW LVL MSTR AND CAP AT 800 MB.
CONVECTIVE TEMP ARND 99-100...WITH CLEAR SKIES SHLD BE ABLE TO
REACH THIS. STEERING WINDS AT H5/H4 ELY 10-15 KTS TO HELP PUSH MT
TSTMS INTO THE VALLEYS.  NWLY WINDS AT UPR LVLS PUSHG ANVILS OFF
TO SE.  BEEFED UP POPS AND MENTIONED PSLB SVR LVLS TGNT.
THU/FRI...MODELS DRIFT UPR HI ARND NRN AZ THRU FCST PD...SO LTL
CHG IN BIG SCALE FEATURES.  WILL KEEP SCT IN ERN...AND WDLY SCT
IN WRN ZNS BOTH DAYS.  TEMPS WILL BE DIFFICULT TGNT AND THU.  IF
WE GET A PERSISTENT CLD SHXIELD LASTING OVRNGT INTO THE MRNG MAX
TEMPS MAY BE WAY DOWN.  SWING SHIFT MAY NEED TO ADJUST SOME
TEMPS. TUS  4232

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.