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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Tucson, AZ

June 26, 20116 counties in Arizona

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2011-06-26Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2011-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 224 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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 11:15 AM MSTHeat AdvisoryTWCCochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz55 hr

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Arizona, 2011Every heat advisory in 2011

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.