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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tucson, AZ

April 28, 2007Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2007, 12:15 PM MST for Pima 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
Apr 28, 2007, 12:15 PM MST (19:15 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2007, 12:45 PM MST
In force
30 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), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 22 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 2007-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2007-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
3683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 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 
WUUS55 KTWC 281916
SVRTWC
AZC019-281945-
/O.NEW.KTWC.SV.W.0002.070428T1915Z-070428T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1215 PM MST SAT APR 28 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA...

* UNTIL 1245 PM MST

* AT 1206 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES
  EAST OF SAHUARITA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREEN VALLEY...
  AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SAHUARITA BY 1230 PM MST...

LAT...LON 3186 11076 3203 11069 3216 11105 3195 11114

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS55 KTWC 281937
SVSTWC

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1236 PM MST SAT APR 28 2007

AZC019-281946-
/O.EXP.KTWC.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070428T1945Z/
PIMA AZ-
1236 PM MST SAT APR 28 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 1245 PM MST...

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORMS NEAR SAHUARITA HAVE STARTED 
TO WEAKEN. EXPECT WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH TO CONTINUE NEAR THE 
STORMS THROUGH 1 PM AS THEY MOVE TO THE WEST AROUND 10 MPH.

LAT...LON 3186 11076 3203 11069 3216 11105 3195 11114

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 1:25 PM MSTDust Storm WarningTWC83 min

Nearby

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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.