Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2002, 4:44 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2002, 4:44 PM MST (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2002, 5:45 PM MST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pima County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 1354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
608
WUUS55 KTWC 142344
SVRTWC
AZC019-150045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
445 PM MST SUN JUL 14 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN PIMA COUNTY IN ARIZONA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TUCSON...ORO VALLEY...GREEN VALLEY
* UNTIL 545 PM MST
* AT 445 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SUMMERHAVEN TO THE RINCONS
JUST EAST OF TUCSON SOUTHWARD TO INTERSTATE 10 NEAR VAIL. MOVEMENT
WAS TO THE WEST AT ABOUT 10 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
NORTHERN AND EASTERN TUCSON AT 455 PM MST
GREEN VALLEY AT 510 PM MST
ORO VALLEY AT 520 PM MST
DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY.
LAT...LON 3250 11055 3207 11047 3174 11054 3178 11106
3222 11105 3250 11106The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 5:44 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 1:08 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 1:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 1:57 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 2:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 3:06 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 3:33 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham, Greenlee | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 4:04 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 41 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.