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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 14, 1996Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1996, 5:17 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 28 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 14, 1996, 5:17 PM MST (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1996, 5:45 PM MST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Pima County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 00:00Z on 1996-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1143 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 00:00Z on 1996-08-15The 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
1143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 5:09 PM MSTTornado WarningTWCPima36 min
Aug 14, 5:20 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima115 min
Aug 14, 5:31 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima59 min
Aug 14, 5:44 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPinal61 min
Aug 14, 6:20 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima, Pinal55 min
Aug 14, 6:36 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima, Pinal69 min
Aug 14, 7:00 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima, Pinal45 min
Aug 14, 7:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima, Pinal45 min
Aug 14, 7:25 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima95 min
Aug 14, 7:25 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima95 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.