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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this heat advisory at Jun 26, 2011, 10:05 AM MST for 6 counties in Arizona. It took effect at Jun 27, 2011, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2011, 10:05 AM MST (17:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2011, 2:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2011, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
Counties Cochise County, AZ, Graham County, AZ, Greenlee County, AZ, Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 335 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Jun 26, 8:30 AM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 8:30 AM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 11:15 AM MST | Heat Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 55 hr |
Nearby
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.