Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2006, 6:24 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 30 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 2, 2006, 6:24 PM MST (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2006, 6:54 PM MST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mohave County, AZ
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 KVEF 030126
SVRVEF
AZC015-030215-
/O.NEW.KVEF.SV.W.0013.060703T0124Z-060703T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
624 PM MST SUN JUL 2 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EXTREME WEST CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA...
* UNTIL 715 PM MST.
* AT 623 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COTTONWOOD COVE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5
MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN IN
ADDITION TO HAIL AND WINDS. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY
THERE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BOATERS AND SWIMMERS SHOULD HEAD
FOR SHORE IMMEDIATELY.
LAT...LON 3554 11465 3550 11468 3544 11464 3538 11461
3536 11454 3552 11450
$$
MORGAN1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS55 KVEF 030154
SVSVEF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
652 PM PDT SUN JUL 2 2006
AZC015-030202-
/O.CAN.KVEF.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060703T0215Z/
MOHAVE AZ-
652 PM MST SUN JUL 2 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME WEST CENTRAL MOHAVE
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
AT 650 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM JUST EAST OF
COTTONWOOD COVE HAD WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING IS CANCELLED.
SEVERAL OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE PERSISTING BETWEEN STATE
HIGHWAY 68...HIGHWAY 93...AND THE COLORADO RIVER.
LAT...LON 3554 11465 3550 11468 3544 11464 3538 11461
3536 11454 3552 11450
$$
MORGANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 5:45 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 5:53 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 7:21 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 7:59 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 8:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 47 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.