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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Phoenix, AZ

January 29, 2005Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this tornado warning at Jan 29, 2005, 1:48 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 42 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: Jan 29, 2005, 1:48 PM MST (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Jan 29, 2005, 2:30 PM MST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Maricopa County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 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.

000 
WFUS55 KPSR 292050
TORPSR
AZC013-292130-
/X.NEW.KPSR.TO.W.0003.050129T2048Z-050129T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
148 PM MST SAT JAN 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA   THIS      
  INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CIRCLE CITY...WITTMANN...SURPRISE...SUN     
  CITY WEST

* UNTIL 230 PM MST.

* AT 141 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR        
  CIRCLE     CITY...OR ABOUT NEAR SUN CITY WEST...MOVING SOUTHEAST   
  AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3386 11244 3377 11265 3355 11247 3371 11225

$$

AJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 29, 1:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	24 days
Jan 29, 3:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	24 days

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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.