Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2005, 7:27 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 33 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 7, 2005, 7:27 PM MST (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2005, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 33 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), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS55 KTWC 080228
SVRTWC
AZC019-080300-
/O.NEW.KTWC.SV.W.0013.050708T0227Z-050708T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
727 PM MST THU JUL 7 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA
THIS INCLUDES SOUTHEAST TUCSON
* UNTIL 800 PM MST
* AT 725 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR
FORCE BASE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK EAST BY 745 PM MST
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND BLOWING DUST...FOLLOWED
BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY
AND WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR GREATER.
LAT...LON 3219 11091 3204 11091 3204 11061 3222 11062
$$
PYTLAK
WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KTWC 080240 SVSTWC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 740 PM MST THU JUL 7 2005 AZC019-080300- /O.CON.KTWC.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050708T0300Z/ PIMA AZ- 740 PM MST THU JUL 7 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM MST FOR EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY INCLUDING SOUTHEAST TUCSON... AT 740 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK EAST BY 750 PM MST A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A WIND GUST AROUND 50 MPH AT NEAR KOLB AND VALENCIA ROADS JUST AFTER 730 PM. PEOPLE ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF TUCSON...ESPECIALLY NEAR SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK EAST...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND BLOWING DUST...FOLLOWED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3219 11091 3204 11091 3204 11061 3222 11062 $$ PYTLAK WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
000 WWUS55 KTWC 080258 SVSTWC SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 757 PM MST THU JUL 7 2005 AZC019-080307- /O.EXP.KTWC.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050708T0300Z/ PIMA AZ- 757 PM MST THU JUL 7 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 800 PM MST... THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST TUCSON WEAKENED RAPIDLY AFTER 745 PM. HOWEVER...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...BLOWING DUST...AND LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TOWARD THE RINCON MOUNTAINS. LAT...LON 3219 11091 3204 11091 3204 11061 3222 11062 $$ PYTLAK WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
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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.