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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Phoenix, AZ

December 21, 1997La Paz County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 21, 1997, 5:53 PM MST for La Paz County, Arizona. It was in force for 67 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
Dec 21, 1997, 5:53 PM MST (00:53 UTC)
Expired
Dec 21, 1997, 7:00 PM MST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County La Paz County, AZ

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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, Dec 21, 2:43 PM MST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
AZZALL-221130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
245 PM MST SUN DEC 21 1997

...HOLIDAY WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR ARIZONA CHRISTMAS DAY...

A COLD WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL BE OVER THE STATE ON CHRISTMAS
DAY...AND FRIDAY. AS A RESULT SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY...WITH A
CHANCE OF DESERT RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW BOTH DAYS. OVERNIGHT LOWS
WILL RANGE FROM THE TEENS IN THE MOUNTAINS...TO THE LOWER OR MIDDLE
40S AT THE WARMER DESERT LOCATIONS. AFTERNOON HIGHS CHRISTMAS DAY
WILL RANGE FROM AROUND 30 DEGREES IN THE MOUNTAINS TO AROUND 60 ON
THE DESERT...PROBABLY A FEW DEGREES COOLER FRIDAY.

PERFREMENT
Special weather statement, Dec 21, 2:45 PM MST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
AZZALL-221130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
245 PM MST SUN DEC 21 1997

...HOLIDAY WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR ARIZONA CHRISTMAS DAY...

A COLD WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL BE OVER THE STATE ON CHRISTMAS
DAY...AND FRIDAY. AS A RESULT SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY...WITH A
CHANCE OF DESERT RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW BOTH DAYS. OVERNIGHT LOWS
WILL RANGE FROM THE TEENS IN THE MOUNTAINS...TO THE LOWER OR MIDDLE
40S AT THE WARMER DESERT LOCATIONS. AFTERNOON HIGHS CHRISTMAS DAY
WILL RANGE FROM AROUND 30 DEGREES IN THE MOUNTAINS TO AROUND 60 ON
THE DESERT...PROBABLY A FEW DEGREES COOLER FRIDAY.

PERFREMENT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 21, 5:53 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRLa Paz67 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.