Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 4:09 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 66 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 29, 1996, 4:09 PM MST (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1996, 5:15 PM MST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mohave County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLAS 292311 SVRLAS AZC015-300015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 409 PM PDT (409 PM MST) THU AUG 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM PDT (515 PM MST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA ...SOUTH CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY AT 400 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF KINGMAN ALONG INTERSTATE 40. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH ALONG INTERSTATE 40 AT 10 MPH. THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF KINGMAN BUT DOES INCLUDE THE TOWN OF YUCCA ABOUT 20 MILES TO THE SOUTH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. SKRBAC
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 Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 29, 2:18 PM MST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 2:18 PM MST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 215 PM PDT THU AUG 29 1996 TSTMS FORMING OVR YAVAPAI COUNTY AND WL MOV INTO MOHAVE COUNTY LATER THIS AFTN AND EVENING. EARLIER OUTFLOW FM SW AZ COMPLEX JUICED UP THE AIR OVR SRN MOHAVE. NEW 94O HAS SLGT RISK OVR SRN MOHAVE JUST S OF IGM. EVE CREW WL HAVE TO WATCH THIS AREA CAPES APPEAR TO BE BTN 1000 AND 2000J/KG WITH SMALL CAP (<100J/KG). LARGER CAPES EXIST OVR SW AZ IN 70+ DEW PTS. AMS MUCH MORE STABLE OVR SRN NV AND SERN CA. MN CONCERN FOR TMW IS PATH OF LOW LVL MSTR. MAJOR DIFFERENCES BTN ETA AND NGM/AVN. THE ETA KEEPS...EVEN INCREASES THE LOW LVL MSTR OVRNGT WHILE THE NGM/AVN DRY IT OUT. I LEAN TWD THE ETA SOLUTION BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT AND CURRENT CONVECTION MOVG WWD ACRS YAVAPAI COUNTY AND THEIR IMPLICATION ON FUTURE OUTFLOWS AND POTENTIAL TO PUSH THE MSTR EVEN FARTHER NWD AND WWD. BASED ON THIS WL INTRODUCE ISOLD TSTMS IN SRN ZONE 9 TMW...SOUTH OF LAS. TUF FCST BUT EVENING SHIFT CAN REEVALUATE DEVELOPING SITUATION IN NW AZ. WL KEEP WDLY SCT IN AZ ZONE 3 TMW AND GO TO ISOLD ON SAT. OTRW...TROF MOVG TWD PACNW SHD SLOWLY LOWER THE HGHTS NXT 48-72 HRS AND BRING SOME BREEZY CONDS BY SATURDAY. WL INTRODUCE SOME S WNDS 10 TO 20 MPH EVEN TMW FOR GRAD WNDS IN ZONE 8 AND SLY SURGE POTENTIAL IN ZONE 9 ALONG THE RIVER. IN THE EXTENDED PD...TEMPS TO RETURN TO NR NORMAL WITH LOCAL BREEZES. WL KEEP EVERYBODY DRY ...EVEN NW AZ. LAS 0000. SKRBAC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 3:05 PM MST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AZZ003-292305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 305 PM PDT (305 PM MST) THU AUG 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST MOHAVE COUNTY... AT 255 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF WIKIEUP OVER THE AQUARIUS MOUNTAINS. THE STORM HAD JUST FORMED BUT MOVEMENT APPEARED TO BE SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. PERSONS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST MOHAVE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS STORM. THE STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL ...STRONG WIND GUSTS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. VISIBILITIES MAY ALSO BE REDUCED IN BLOWING DUST AND SAND. ANOTHER STORM WAS DEVELOPING OVER THE HUALAPAI MOUN@TAINS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINGMAN. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY THROUGH THIS EVENING. SKRBAC
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 3:35 PM MST, 34 minutes before
AZZ003-292340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 335 PM PDT (335 PM MST) THU AUG 29 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF KINGMAN... AT 330 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF KINGMAN. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWARD AROUND 10 MPH. THE STORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 40 SOUTH OF KINGMAN AND NEAR YUCCA AROUND 400 PM MST. TRAVELLERS ON OR NEAR INTERSTATE 40 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... STRONG WIND GUSTS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AVOID HYDROPLANING BY SLOWING YOUR SPEED DURING PERIODS OF HEAVIER RAIN. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AROUND THE REGION THROUGH THIS EVENING. LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SKRBAC
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.