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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 14, 1999Imperial County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1999, 6:03 PM PDT for Imperial County, California. It was in force for 42 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 14, 1999, 6:03 PM PDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1999, 6:45 PM PDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Imperial County, CA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 14, 6:38 PM PDTThunderstorm Wind 65Westmoreland, CAPower poles and lines down. Roof from a house blown onto a road.

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 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 14, 2:45 PM PDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:45 PM PDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
245 PM MST WED JUL 14 1999

.SYNOPSIS...
A MOIST AIRMASS IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AZ
TONIGHT. A BROAD TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES TO THE EAST TONIGHT
TRIGGERING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOUTH
CENTRAL AZ.  A SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ON THURSDAY WILL BRING SLIGHTLY
DRIER AIR INTO THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL AREA.  CHANCE OF
AFTERNOON THUNDERTORMS CONTINUES MAINLY TO THE EAST ON FRIDAY AND
INTO THE WEEKEND.

.DISCUSSION...
DEEP CONVECTION OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MIDDAY TODAY HAS TEMPORAIRLY
DIMINISHIED THUNDERTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  HOWEVER THE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD RETURN THIS EVENING...TRIGGERING ON THE OLD
OUTFLOW BOUNDAIRIES FROM THE PREVIOUS STORMS...A MOVE NORTHEAST
ACROSS THE SAME AREAS THAT HAD RAINS EARLIER TODAY.  THE SUBTLE AXIS
OF A BROAD TROUGH ALOFT SHOULD SWING TO THE EAST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AZ
BY 06Z TONIGHT.  AFTER THE AXIS PASSAGE CNVCTV ACTIVITY SHOULD DMSH.
A WEAK RDIGE FOLLOWS...INTO OUR AREA ON THURSDAY...THEN A E PAC
TROUGH DEEPENS SW OF SRN CA...ON FRIDAY BRINGING A BETTER DEFINED
SOUTHWEST FLOW INTO THE AREA.  THE E PAC TROUGH SHD BE THE DOMINATE
FEATURE THOUGH THE WEEKEND. PERHAPS HEARLDING A SLIGHTLY DRIER CLIME
IN THE SOUTHWEST REGION OF OUR AREA GOING INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK.

IN THE MEANTIME...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM
MST FOR CENTRAL AZ...MARICOPA...SOUTHERN GILA...AND NORTHWEST PINAL
COUNTY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 5:14 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRPinal61 min

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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.