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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2000, 7:57 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 6, 2000, 7:57 PM MST (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2000, 8:45 PM MST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Cochise County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KTWC 070259 SVRTUS AZC003-070345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 757 PM MST SUN AUG 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY IN ARIZONA * UNTIL 845 PM MST * AT 755 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM TOMBSTONE SOUTH TO THE MEXICAN BORDER JUST WEST OF NACO. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. WINDS TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN TUCS=ON. LAT...LON 3169 11014 3157 10999 3181 10967 3197 10985
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 5:35 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 7:01 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 7:30 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 8:25 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.