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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Phoenix, AZ

September 14, 1997Yuma County, Arizona; Imperial County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1997, 3:38 PM MST for Yuma County, Arizona; Imperial County, California. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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: Sep 14, 1997, 3:38 PM MST (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 1997, 4:25 PM MST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Whole counties

Counties Yuma County, AZ, Imperial County, CA

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 14, 4:05 PM MST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Yuma, AZ	Spotters and law enforcement reported power lines and trees down.

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 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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 2:34 PM MST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 1:19 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	La Paz	46 min
Sep 14, 4:25 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1997 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.