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Heat Advisory 5, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this heat advisory at Jun 30, 2011, 3:00 PM MST for 6 counties in Arizona. It took effect at Jul 1, 2011, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2011, 3:00 PM MST (22:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 1, 2011, 2:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2011, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 5 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 22:00 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 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 30, 3:00 PM MST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:00 PM MST, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 5:16 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 6:28 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 6:58 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:34 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 86 min |
| Jun 30, 2:52 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 38 min |
| Jun 30, 3:00 PM MST | Heat Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 52 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:23 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 22 min |
| Jun 30, 3:30 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 29 min |
| Jun 30, 3:37 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 84 min |
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.