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Special Weather Statement, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2010, 2:13 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 47 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 23, 2010, 2:13 PM MST (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2010, 3:00 PM MST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
County Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 23, 11:10 AM MST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 11:10 AM MST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 610 AM MST FRI JUL 23 2010 AZZ021>023-026>028-241300- WEST CENTRAL DESERTS-NORTHWEST MARICOPA COUNTY-GREATER PHOENIX AREA- SOUTHWEST DESERTS-SOUTHWEST MARICOPA COUNTY- NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL PINAL COUNTY- 610 AM MST FRI JUL 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA...SOUTHWEST ARIZONA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE TO A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...BLOWING DUST AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THIS WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH CHANCES INCREASING BY NEXT TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...BLOWING DUST AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. AZZ020-025-CAZ030>033-241300- LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY AZ-YUMA/MARTINEZ LAKE AND VICINITY- JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK-LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY CA- RIVERSIDE COUNTY/EASTERN DESERTS-IMPERIAL COUNTY- 610 AM MST FRI JUL 23 2010 /610 AM PDT FRI JUL 23 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST ARIZONA...EXTREME WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO WEATHER HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY IT WILL BECOME VERY HOT THIS WEEKEND...WITH MANY LOCATIONS EXPECTED TO REACH OR EXCEED 110 DEGREES OVER THE LOWER DESERT. HIGH TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN BELOW EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING THRESHOLDS. TEMPERATURES WILL LOWER INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...THEN BECOME VERY HOT BY NEXT THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. AZZ024-241300- SOUTHERN GILA COUNTY/TONTO NATIONAL FOREST FOOTHILLS- 610 AM MST FRI JUL 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THE RAINFALL MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE WASHES TO RUN...AS WELL AS LOCAL FLOODING OF AREA ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED CHANCE FOR MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .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 BRECKENRIDGE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:28 AM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 22, 5:45 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 45 min | |
| Jul 22, 6:00 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 79 min |
| Jul 23, 10:55 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 110 min |
| Jul 23, 11:28 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | La Paz | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 12:52 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | La Paz, Maricopa | 113 min |
| Jul 23, 2:29 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Gila | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 2:44 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila, Maricopa | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 2:49 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Gila | 116 min |
| Jul 23, 2:57 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Gila | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 3:28 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 47 min | |
| Jul 23, 3:38 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila | 78 min |
| Jul 23, 3:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 4:31 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 29 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.