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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2000, 4:45 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 30 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 21, 2000, 4:45 PM MST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2000, 5:15 PM MST
- In force
- 30 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), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 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 KTWC 212349 COR SVRTUS AZC003-220015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR EXIT 322 TO 331 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 445 PM MST MON AUG 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY IN ARIZONA * UNTIL 515 PM MST * AT 440 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE DRAGOON MOUNTAINS MOVING NORTHWEST 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHWEST OFF THE MOUNTAIN AND AFFECT PORTIONS OF INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN EXIT 312 AND 331 THROUGH 515 PM WITH WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. REP ORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN TUCSON. LAT...LON 3209 11010 3191 10988 3201 10979 3218 10999 GLUECK
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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 21, 2:15 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:15 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 215 PM MST MON AUG 21 2000 SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES BY THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...AND REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. THIS WILL ALLOW SUBTROPICAL DISTURBANCES TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST MEXICO...AND BRING DEEPER MOISTURE AND MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY INTO SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. DISCUSSION...A VERY QUIET AFTERNOON SO FAR ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. DEWPOINTS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE MID 40S TO LOW 50S FAHRENHEIT DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WILL ADJUST THE FIRST PERIOD FORECAST DOWNWARD WITH REGARDST TO POPS IN THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE. AFTER TONIGHT...THE 500 MB HIGH CENTER EXPANDS WESTWARD AND ALLOWS A MORE FAVORABLE SOUTHEAST FLOW TO DEVELOP. THIS OPENS THE DOOR FOR EASTERLY WAVES TO MOVE TOWARD ARIZONA. THE FIRST ONE LOOKS TO MAKE ITS MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN SONORA TUESDAY NIGHT AND ANOTHER ONE IS FORECAST BY THE MRF FRIDAY. WILL FORECAST A GRADUAL INCREASE IN ACTIVITY THROUGH THE SHORT TERM PERIOD AND THEN A MID GRADE MONSOON FOR THE 3 TO 5 DAY PERIOD. OKULSKI .TWC...NONE.
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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.