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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2000, 6:36 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2000, 6:36 PM MST (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2000, 7:15 PM MST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Gila County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 310141 SVRPHX AZC007-310205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 636 PM MST SUN JUL 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL GILA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA * UNTIL 715 PM MST * AT 632 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL GILA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF ROOSEVELT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MOTORISTS IN THE AREA...AS WELL AS BOATERS ON THE SOUTHERN SHORE OF THE LAKE...SHOULD TAKE CAUTION AND PREPARE FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PHOENIX. LAT...LON 3377 11100 3364 11084 3388 11051 3404 11070
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 30, 2:45 PM MST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:45 PM MST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-310545- SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 245 PM MST SUN JUL 30 2000 .SYNOPSIS... UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GREAT BASIN REGION WILL GIVE AN EAST NORTHEAST FLOW TO THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA THIS WEEK. MOISTURE LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...AND REMAIN HIGH ENOUGH TO HELP FEED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THIS THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL EVENTUALLY REACH ALL THE WAY INTO SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA BY MONDAY NIGHT AND THEREAFTER. MEANWHILE...AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO BE NEAR LATE JULY NORMALS. .DISCUSSION... AFTERNOON CONVECTION HAS BEEN QUITE SLOW TO FORM AND SO FAR HAS BEEN PRETTY WIMPY. SATELLITE PIX SHOW WEAK CBS FORMING ALONG MOGOLLON RIM THEN DISSIPATING QUICKLY WITH ANVIL TOPS SCOOTING SWWD. MOISTURE...OR RELATIVE LACK THEREOF...CONTINUES TO BE THE ONLY NEGATIVE FACTOR TO WHAT OTHERWISE SHOULD BE A VERY ACTIVE...POSSIBLY SEVERE...DAY. 12Z MODELS HINTED THAT SOME BRIEF MID LEVEL DRYING HAS OCCURED OVER ERN AZ TODAY...AND WITH THE WIMPY CONVECTION...THIS MAY BE THE CASE. HOWEVER...APPROACHING IMPULSE OVER NM...ALONG WITH OTHER POSSIBLE RIPPLES EMBEDDED IN THE NELY FLOW...HAS US STILL HOPING FOR SOME EVENING DESERT CONVECTION. ISSUED AN HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK EARLIER...DUE TO THE SEVERE MICROBURST POTENTIAL WITH ANY STORMS THAT DO PROPOGATE OFF THE RIM OUR DIRECTION THIS EVENING. RAINFALL WITH ANY STORMS TONIGHT WILL BE LIGHT AND SPOTTY DUE TO RELATIVELY DRY LOWER LEVELS. THEREFORE...CUT POPS TO SLIGHT CHANCE VALUES...WITH THE THREAT OF STORMS OCCURING SOMEWHAT HIGHER. RAISED POPS UP TO CHANCE CATEGORIES MONDAY NIGHT AS WE SHOULD BE A LITTLE WETTER BY THEN. ALSO...STARTED TO INTRODUCE SOME MINOR POPS INTO SE CA BY TOMORROW NIGHT AS DEEP E/NELY FLOW COULD TAKE SOME ACTION THAT FAR WEST. THE EXTENDED WILL BE LEFT AzS IS...WITH A CHANCE OF STORMS GOING EACH DAY AS UPPER HIGH TO OUR N STAYS PUT. ESTLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 1:03 PM MST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
AZZ022>024-027-028-310130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 103 PM MST SUN JUL 30 2000 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY GUSTY WINDS AND BLOWING DUST OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA LATER THIS EVENING... THE SLIGHT RISK AREA INCLUDES SOUTHERN GILA...MARICOPA AND NORTHWEST PINAL COUNTIES. IT INCLUDES THE PHOENIX METRO AREA...AS WELL AS THE TOWNS OF COOLIDGE...CASA GRANDE...GLOBE...MIAMI... FLORENCE...GILA BEND AND WICKENBURG. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE RISK AREA BY LATE TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM FIRST OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHERN GILA AND FAR NORTHEAST MARICOPA COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE SOUTHWEST INTO THE PHOENIX AREA OF NORTH CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY AFTER 700 PM MST...AND WESTERN MARICOPA COUNTY AFTER 900 PM MST. ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY STRONG WINDS OF OVER 50 MPH. THESE TYPES OF WINDS WOULD ALSO SERVE TO KICK UP BLOWING DUST...WHICH COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATER TODAY OR THIS EVENING. ESTLE (
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 7:20 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 45 min |
| Jul 30, 8:03 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.