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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2008, 3:07 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 53 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
- Aug 3, 2008, 3:07 PM MST (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2008, 4:00 PM MST
- In force
- 53 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 22:09 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
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 488 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 3, 2:45 PM MST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:45 PM MST, 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 6:06 AM MST, 9 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 606 AM MST SUN AUG 3 2008 AZZ022-023-027-028-041300- NORTHWEST MARICOPA COUNTY-GREATER PHOENIX AREA- SOUTHWEST MARICOPA COUNTY-NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL PINAL COUNTY- 606 AM MST SUN AUG 3 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT BLOWING DUST IS POSSIBLE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING...FOLLOWED BY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST OF PHOENIX. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE SUDDENLY REDUCED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...STRONG GUSTY ERRATIC AND DAMAGING WINDS TO OVER 60 MPH... AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING. IF YOU SEE AN APPROACHING DUST STORM OR GET CAUGHT IN ONE...PULL OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AS FAR AS SAFELY POSSIBLE...PUT YOUR VEHICLE IN PARK...TURN THE LIGHTS ALL THE WAY OFF...AND KEEP YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKE PEDAL. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER WAY TO YOUR DESTINATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY BLOWING DUST IS POSSIBLE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD LATE IN THE AFTERNOON OR IN THE EVENING ESPECIALLY MONDAY...FOLLOWED BY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE SUDDENLY REDUCED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES... STRONG GUSTY ERRATIC AND DAMAGING WINDS TO OVER 60 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING. IF YOU SEE AN APPROACHING DUST STORM OR GET CAUGHT IN ONE...PULL OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AS FAR AS SAFELY POSSIBLE...PUT YOUR VEHICLE IN PARK...TURN THE LIGHTS ALL THE WAY OFF...AND KEEP YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKE PEDAL. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER WAY TO YOUR DESTINATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BY LATE MONDAY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX IS ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/PHOENIX AZZ024-041300- SOUTHERN GILA COUNTY/TONTO NATIONAL FOREST FOOTHILLS- 606 AM MST SUN AUG 3 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...STRONG GUSTY ERRATIC AND DAMAGING WINDS TO OVER 60 MPH... AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING. STAY ALERT FOR DEBRIS ON THE ROAD FROM FLOODING. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER WAY TO YOUR DESTINATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...STRONG GUSTY ERRATIC AND DAMAGING WINDS TO OVER 60 MPH... AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING. STAY ALERT FOR DEBRIS ON THE ROAD FROM FLOODING. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER WAY TO YOUR DESTINATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS TODAY AND/OR MONDAY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX IS ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/PHOENIX AZZ020-021-025-026-CAZ030>033-041300- LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY AZ-WEST CENTRAL DESERTS- YUMA/MARTINEZ LAKE AND VICINITY-SOUTHWEST DESERTS- JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK-LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY CA- RIVERSIDE COUNTY/EASTERN DESERTS-IMPERIAL COUNTY- 606 AM MST SUN AUG 3 2008 /606 AM PDT SUN AUG 3 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST ARIZONA...EXTREME WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA...SOUTHWEST ARIZONA...WEST- CENTRAL ARIZONA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. INITIALLY THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND STRONG GUSTY ERRATIC WINDS TO OVER 50 MPH WITH LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST. THEN...OTHER HAZARDS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH WATER RUNNING IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW SPOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BLOWING DUST IS POSSIBLE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE SUDDENLY REDUCED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...STRONG GUSTY ERRATIC AND DAMAGING WINDS TO OVER 60 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING. IF YOU SEE AN APPROACHING DUST STORM OR GET CAUGHT IN ONE...PULL OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AS FAR AS SAFELY POSSIBLE...PUT YOUR VEHICLE IN PARK...TURN THE LIGHTS ALL THE WAY OFF...AND KEEP YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKE PEDAL. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER WAY TO YOUR DESTINATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX IS ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/PHOENIX ELLIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 3:28 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 4:39 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 4:58 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Gila | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.