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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Phoenix, AZ

October 25, 1998Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1998, 3:42 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 28 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: Oct 25, 1998, 3:42 PM MST (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1998, 4:10 PM MST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Whole counties

County Maricopa County, AZ

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 25, 3:50 PM MST	Hail 1.75	Fountain Hills, AZ	Nickel to golfball size hail reported in Fountain Hills.
Oct 25, 4:00 PM MST	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Fountain Hills, AZ	For the third time on this day, Fountain Hills was hit by high winds that blew sand and debris into streets along with hail and heavy rain.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 25, 1:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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, Oct 25, 1:40 PM MST, 2 hours 2 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
Oct 25, 7:32 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	38 min
Oct 25, 10:21 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Gila, Maricopa	39 min
Oct 25, 1:44 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	31 min
Oct 25, 3:07 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	33 min
Oct 25, 4:12 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Gila	18 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.