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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 8, 1999Gila County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1999, 4:00 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 45 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
Jul 8, 1999, 4:00 PM MST (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1999, 4:45 PM MST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.

NWS Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 2:50 PM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:50 PM MST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 5:59 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRPinal51 min
Jul 7, 7:43 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa62 min
Jul 7, 7:50 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa35 min
Jul 7, 8:28 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.