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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 29, 2002Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2002, 5:17 AM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 43 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 29, 2002, 5:17 AM MST (12:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2002, 6:00 AM MST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:17 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 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 2002-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 2002-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2152 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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.

466 
WUUS55 KTWC 291217
SVRTWC
AZC021-291300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
515 AM MST THU AUG 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PINAL COUNTY IN ARIZONA

* UNTIL 600 AM MST

* AT 512 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ORACLE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  ORO VALLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SAN MANUEL AT 525 AM MST
  MAMMOTH AT 530 AM MST

HAIL UP TO 1 3/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3273 11101 3253 11083 3255 11048 3295 11048

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 12:50 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCPima55 min
Aug 29, 1:15 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima60 min
Aug 29, 1:16 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima119 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2002Every 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.