Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1997, 8:55 AM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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
- Aug 26, 1997, 8:55 AM MST (15:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1997, 10:00 AM MST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maricopa County, AZ
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 9:30 AM MST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Chandler, AZ | Power lines were blown down across Interstate 10 near the Chandler Boulevard exit. |
| Aug 26, 9:30 AM MST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Phoenix, AZ | Between 48th Street and 52nd Street near Baseline Road, trees were blown down; at the South Pointe Resort, strong winds twisted metal beams and blew a roof partially off. |
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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 718 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:10 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 45 min |
| Aug 26, 8:54 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 8:54 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 8:55 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 10:18 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:37 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 62 min |
| Aug 26, 4:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Yuma | 55 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.