Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2000, 4:13 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 17, 2000, 4:13 PM MST (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2000, 4:45 PM MST
- In force
- 32 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 23:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPSR 172315 SVRPHX AZC007-180000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 413 PM MST SAT JUN 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN GILA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARIZONA * UNTIL 500 PM MST * AT 405 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1 MILE EAST OF SAN CARLOS... MOVING NORTHEAST 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN COMMUNITY OF SAN CARLOS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! HV N
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 Jun 17, 3:04 PM MST, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:04 PM MST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-180545- SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 304 PM MST SAT JUN 17 2000 .SYNOPSIS... LOW PRESSURE HAS SETTLED IN OVER THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES...WHILE MOISTURE-LADEN AIR FROM THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA HAS CONTINUED MOVING NORTHWARD IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE AND SPREADING OUT ACROSS SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWEST ARIZONA. THIS HAS LED TO A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON...AND THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THEY MAY REDEVELOP AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND NORMAL THROUGH THURSDAY...AND STILL HOT ENOUGH TO DRIVE SOME AFTERNOON BREEZINESS. .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN GILA COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON...AND THEY ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING AT LEAST. SURGE CONTINUED OVER THE REGION TODAY...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 50S TO LOW 70S ON THE DESERTS. KYUX VWP SHOWS WIND SELY FROM SFC TO AT LEAST 7K FEET. SURFACE WIND AT BLYTHE HAS BECOME MORE SWLY THIS AFTERNOON... BUT YUMA AND IMPERIAL REMAIN VERY MUCH SELY. THOUGHT THE ADVECTION OF MOISTURE WAS WEAKENING EARLIER TODAY...BUT IT APPEARS IT IS ONGOING. LOOK FOR FLOW TO BECOME MORE SWLY SUNDAY...BUT LATER IN THE DAY...AND STILL LOOK FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS IN SRN GILA COUNTY...E OF THE GLOBE AREA SUNDAY AFTERNOON. TEMPS DOWN A BIT MORE TODAY AND THEN GENERALLY LEVEL IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD...AROUND NORMAL...WITH SOME AFTERNOON AND EVENING BREEZINESS. APPEARS SURGE TO END BY SUN...WITH DRIER AIR INTRUDING FROM THE W LATE SUN AND MON. WILT N
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.