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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 612

August 16, 20024 counties in Arizona

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 16, 2002, 12:15 PM MST for 4 counties in Arizona. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 2002, 12:15 PM MST (19:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2002, 6:00 PM MST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Cochise County, AZ, Graham County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 12:54 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise51 min
Aug 16, 2:02 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise28 min

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 12:00Z on 2002-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1872 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2002-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
1872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.