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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2006, 3:07 PM MST for Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2006, 3:07 PM MST (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2006, 3:45 PM MST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 12, 2:06 PM MST, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:06 PM MST, 1 hour 1 minute before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 12, 8:50 AM MST, 6 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 850 AM MST TUE SEP 12 2006 AZZ019-029-030-033>035-130700- NORTHERN GREENLEE COUNTY-SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTY- UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-TUCSON METRO/MARANA/GREEN VALLEY- SANTA CRUZ COUNTY-COCHISE COUNTY- 850 AM MST TUE SEP 12 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA AND SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS WEAK LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHERN BAJA FEEDS MONSOON MOISTURE BACK INTO THE REGION. WITH THE STORMS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH... THE RISK OF FLASH FLOODING WILL INITIALLY BE RATHER LOW...ALTHOUGH SOME MINOR STREET AND WASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. HOWEVER AS THE STORMS BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND BEGIN TO MOVE REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREAS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT...TOTAL RAINFALL COULD EXCEED ONE INCH IN SOME AREAS. THE AREA WILL BE MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE FLASH FLOOD WATCH LATER TODAY. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A RISK OF A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE...ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE A SIGNIFICANT DRYING TREND TAKES PLACE BY THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. AZZ031-032-130700- WESTERN PIMA COUNTY-TOHONO OODHAM NATION- 850 AM MST TUE SEP 12 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AROUND NOON...AND WILL INCREASE IN BOTH COVERAGE AND INTENSITY BY THIS EVENING. BECAUSE SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA IS CLOSER TO WEAK LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHERN BAJA...THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHWEST AT ONLY 10 MPH. THIS COULD LEAD TO 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME OVER CENTRAL AND WESTERN PIMA COUNTY. THE AREA WILL BE MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE FLASH FLOOD WATCH LATER TODAY. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A RISK OF A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...WITH HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE...ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE A SIGNIFICANT DRYING TREND TAKES PLACE BY THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PYTLAK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 12, 11:26 AM MST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1126 AM MST TUE SEP 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1111 AM FLASH FLOOD 8 SE BENSON 31.88N 110.21W
09/12/2006 COCHISE AZ LAW ENFORCEMENT
TRUCK STRUCK IN RISING WATER IN SAINT DAVID. SWIFT WATER
RESCUE REQUIRED.
&&
EVANSLocal storm report, Sep 12, 11:46 AM MST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1146 AM MST TUE SEP 12 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1111 AM FLASH FLOOD 8 SE BENSON 31.88N 110.21W
09/12/2006 COCHISE AZ LAW ENFORCEMENT
TRUCK STUCK IN RISING WATER IN SAINT DAVID. SWIFT WATER
RESCUE REQUIRED.
&&
EVANSLocal storm report, Sep 12, 1:56 PM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 5:33 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 27 min |
| Sep 12, 10:38 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise | 7 min |
| Sep 12, 12:02 PM MST | Flash Flood Watch | TWC | 12 hr | |
| Sep 12, 12:41 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham | 4 min |
| Sep 12, 1:02 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham | |
| Sep 12, 1:42 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 3 min |
| Sep 12, 1:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 45 min |
| Sep 12, 3:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 31 min |
| Sep 12, 4:56 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 64 min |
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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.