Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2000, 4:52 PM PDT for Imperial County, California. It was in force for 53 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
- Aug 17, 2000, 4:52 PM PDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2000, 5:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Imperial County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Yuma Intl Airpor, AZ (KYUM), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
680 WUUS55 KPSR 172352 SVRPHX CAC025-180045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 452 PM MST (452 PM PDT) THU AUG 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN IMPERIAL COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 545 PM PDT (545 PM MST) * AT 445 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF OCOTILLO OR 30 MILES WEST OF EL CENTRO... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT... PLASTER CITY AREAS ALONG INTERSTATE 8 BETWEEN EL CENTRO AND OCOTILLO DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS MB
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 Aug 17, 2:54 PM PDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 2:54 PM PDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-180545- SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 245 AM MST THU AUG 17 2000 .SYNOPSIS... LOW PRESSURE ALOFT OVER NORTHERN BAJA...COUPLED WITH REMNANTS OF OLD TROPICAL STORM BERYL MOVING OVER SOUTHEAST ARIZONA...WILL RESULT IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA INTO THE WEEKEND...INCLUDING FAR SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FRIDAY NIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME STORMS AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA TONIGHT. AS THE REMNANTS OF BERYL MOVE NORTH...CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE OVER THE AREA THIS WEEKEND...RETURNING TO A NORMAL MONSOON REGIME WITH CHANCES OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTH- CENTRAL ARIZONA AND SLIGHT CHANCES ON THE DESERTS...WITH SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA STAYING MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY. .DISCUSSION... SOME OF THE WHAT IS LEFT OF TS BERYL IS STILL HEADED THIS WAY...AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HAS INCREASED ON THE DESERTS DUE TO GULF SURGE AND OUTFLOW FROM STORMS LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING. 18Z SOUNDINGS INDICATE P-WATER HAS INCREASED AGAIN...WITH AN INCH AND TWO-THIRDS AT YUMA AND ALMOST AN INCH AND A HALF AT PHOENIX. FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA FOR TONIGHT...INCLUDING ALL OF MARICOPA...NW PINAL AND SRN GILA COUNTIES AND COMMUNITIES THEREIN. QPF ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF AN INCH FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTH-CENTRAL AZ REGION...WITH MOST OF IT EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. FOR CONTINUITY...WILL GO ALONG WITH THE IDEA OF THE AVN AND KEEP A MENTION OF STORMS IN FAR SW AZ AND FAR SE CA FOR FRI NIGHT...ALTHOUGH THE ETA IMPLIES OTHERWISE. LOOKS LIKE THE MAIN EVENT...INVOLVING REMNANTS OF BERYL...WILL BE OVER FRI NIGHT...WITH A RETURN TO GENERAL MONSOON WEATHER. HOWEVER... MODELS INDICATE AT LEAST THE ERN HALF OF THE CWA WILL REMAIN IN AN AREA OF DEFORMATION UNDER UPPER-LEVEL DIFLUENCE...AND STORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING ON THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND DRIFTING OFF TO LOWER ELEVATIONS IN THE EVENING AND STEERING FLOW WILL BE TOUGH TO CALL. THEREFORE... A GENERAL CHANCE OF STORMS FOR ERN PORTIONS OF CWA FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD SHOULD SUFFICE. WILT
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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.