Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1997, 2:59 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 6, 1997, 2:59 PM MST (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1997, 4:00 PM MST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cochise County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 12:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 3313 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUS 062159 SVRTUS AZC003-062300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 259 PM MST FRI JUN 6 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON AZ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA ...NORTHWESTERN COCHISE COUNTY AT 257 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF WILLCOX MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. STRONG WINDS OVER 60 MPH AND NEAR ONE INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... WILLCOX BY 302 PM MST
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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 2:14 PM MST, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:14 PM MST, 45 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
200 PM MST FRI JUN 6 1997
MSTR AXIS REMAINS STNRY FROM PHX TO TUS SOUTH INTO MEX WITH DRY AIR
BETWEEN TUS AND AJO THE TSTMS WRAPPING AROUND UPR LOW. QUESTION IS
IF ANY MSTR WILL MOVE IN FROM SOUTH TO DEVELOP STORMS OVR REMAINDER
OF AREA. HAVE HAD SOME STRONG WNDS AT SAF THAT DID SOME DAMAGE AND
SVR HAIL JUST REPORTED IN CNTRL COCHISE COUNTY AND STORMS DO SEEM
TO BE INTENSIFYING.
UPR LOW WILL HANG AROUND ONE MORE DAY AND EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF
STORMS AGAIN SAT BUT LESS WNDS WIL ONLY MAKE HAIL THE THREAT. THEN
DRY AIR WILL WORK IN SUN WITH THE WARMING TREND. ONLY MTN TSTMS IN FAR
ERN ZONES THEN SUMMER STARTS AGAIN SUN. TUS 5440 HOLBROOK.
TUS...SVR TSTM WATCH UNTIL 700 PM ALL ZONES.
WND ADVSY ALL ZONES XCPT 26 UNTIL 700 PM MST.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:20 AM MST, 4 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 1016 AM MST FRI JUN 6 1997 AZZ019-026>030-062320- ...ACTIVE THUNDERSTORM DAY SHAPING UP FOR SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM HAS MOVED INTO THE NORTHERN BAJA THIS MORNING SETTING UP SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FOR A ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THE STORM SYSTEM COMBINED WITH MOISTURE MOVING IN FROM MEXICO HAS ALREADY GENERATED THUNDERSTORM OVER COCHISE...GRAHAM...AND GREENLEE COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTH AT NEAR 40 MPH. DURING THE REST OF THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE STRON&G GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST ARIZONA SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNINGS. HOLBROOK
Local storm report, Jun 6, 2:09 PM MST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON
210 PM MST FRI JUN 6 1997
TIME(MST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 PM SUNnSITES AZ HAIL
06/06/97 COCHISE 0.75 INCH HAILThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 12:37 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 1:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 4:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.