Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 3:22 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 23 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
- Jul 8, 2008, 3:22 PM MST (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 3:45 PM MST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 6:20 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PSR | 100 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.