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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 7, 1999Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1999, 5:59 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 51 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 7, 1999, 5:59 PM MST (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1999, 6:50 PM MST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Pinal County, AZ

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 7, 6:25 PM MSTThunderstorm Wind 60Maricopa, AZTrees uprooted in Stanfield, dust storm with near zero visibility in dust and rain near Stanfield.

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, 1.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1999-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1999-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-322 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1577 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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
Jul 8, 4:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRGila45 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.