Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1998, 8:16 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 16, 1998, 8:16 PM MST (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1998, 9:20 PM MST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pinal County, AZ
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:20 PM MST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Eloy, AZ | A line of severe thunderstorms moving through south-central Pinal county knocked down several power poles and power lines. |
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 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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.
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 Jul 16, 2:30 PM MST, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:30 PM MST, 5 hours 46 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 230 PM MST THU JUL 16 1998 SYNOPSIS...AN EASTERLY AIRFLOW AROUND AN UPPER HIGH CENTERED OVER SOUTHERN NEVADA AND SOUTHWEST UTAH W
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:31 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 49 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.