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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Phoenix, AZ

September 14, 1997La Paz County, Yuma County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1997, 4:25 PM MST for La Paz County, Yuma County, Arizona. It was in force for 45 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
Sep 14, 1997, 4:25 PM MST (23:25 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1997, 5:10 PM MST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

Counties La Paz County, AZ, Yuma County, AZ

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 1:19 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRLa Paz46 min
Sep 14, 3:38 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRYuma47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1997Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.