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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 16, 2002Cochise County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 2:02 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 28 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: Aug 16, 2002, 2:02 PM MST (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2002, 2:30 PM MST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cochise County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 16, 12:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

761 
WUUS55 KTWC 162102
SVRTWC
AZC003-162130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
202 PM MST FRI AUG 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY IN ARIZONA

* UNTIL 230 PM MST

* AT 153 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COCHISE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  WILLCOX...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY ALONG HIGHWAY 191
NEAR COCHISE. DO NOT DRIVE INTO ANY FLOODED AREAS.

LAT...LON 3228 10997 3206 11017 3186 10986 3203 10954

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 12:54 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	51 min
Aug 16, 2:11 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	49 min
Aug 16, 2:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	66 min
Aug 16, 2:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	TWC	Pima	6 min
Aug 16, 3:47 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	43 min
Aug 16, 4:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.