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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Phoenix, AZ

June 28, 2000Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2000, 7:44 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 46 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 28, 2000, 7:44 PM MST (02:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2000, 8:30 PM MST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

Counties Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 2000-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 205 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 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
205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPSR 290252 COR
SVRPHX
AZC013-AZC021-290330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
744 PM MST WED JUN 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARIZONA
  NORTH CENTRAL PINAL COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARIZONA

* UNTIL 830 PM MST

* AT 740 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOUNTAIN HILLS... MOVING
  SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR OR AFFECT...
  EAST MESA
  GILBERT
  QUEEN CREEK
  APACHE JUNCTION
  GOLD CANYON

DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE
A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

DG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 3:34 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa61 min
Jun 29, 3:58 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal47 min
Jun 29, 4:48 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.