Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1996, 4:10 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 1996, 4:10 PM MST (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 1996, 5:15 PM MST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mohave County, AZ
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 4:30 PM MST | Tornado F0 | Kingman, AZ | |
| Nov 22, 5:02 PM MST | Tornado F0 | Kingman, AZ | |
| Nov 22, 5:03 PM MST | Hail 1.75 | Kingman, AZ | |
| Nov 22, 5:14 PM MST | Hail 0.75 | Kingman, AZ |
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.
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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 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 Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 22, 3:46 PM MST, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 3:46 PM MST, 24 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 235 PM PST FRI NOV 22 1996 STEEP LAPSE RATES AND GOOD VERT SHEAR HAS RESULTED IN SOME STG CNVTN THIS MRNG AND EARLY AFTN OVR PARTS OF SRN NV AND NW AZ. HAD SOME REPORTS OF SMALL HAIL EARLIER AND MESO WAS TRIGGERED ON STM W OF LAUGHLIN WHERE ROTN WAS ENHCD BY PROXIMITY OF SFC FNTL ZONE. A FEW STG TSTMS STILL DVLPG IN CNTRL MOHAVE COUNTY ALG NOSE OF MID LVL DRY PROD WHERE MESO-ETA DEPICTS CAPES OF 1000-1500 J/KG. NEW DVLPMT ALSO BEING GENERATED ACRS LINCOLN COUNTY NV WHERE STG DFRNTL PVA OVRSPRDS H7 CNVRGC ZONE. NXT UPSTRM VORT CNTR DIVING TWD BASE OF TROF NOT EXPCD TO PRODUCE MUCH OF A PCPN THREAT ACRS CWA SINCE MOST OF THE DEEP MSTR HAS BEEN SWEPT E AND UVV WILL BE CONFINED TO A FAIRLY SHALLOW LYR ONCE IT CROSSES THE SIERRA CREST. LOTS OF RAIN WATER WAS LAID DOWN OVR LAST 24HRS IN SRN NV BUT DRAINAGE WNDS SHD BE STEADY ENUF TO KEEP LO-LVL MSTR MXD OUT AND PREVENT FOG EXCPT PSBLY IN PAHRUMP AND MOAPA VALLEYS. TREND WILL BE FOR GEN IMPRVMT NXT COUPLE DAYS AS HGTS RISE. RESPONSE OF THKNS WILL BE SOMEWHAT SLOWER SO NOT LOOKING FOR BIG WARMUP OVR WEEKEND. DONT SEE CHC FOR MORE PCPN IN XTDD BEFORE TUE/WED. LAS 0000. RUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 5:09 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 66 min |
| Nov 21, 5:09 PM MST | Tornado Warning | VEF | Mohave | 66 min |
| Nov 22, 4:10 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.