Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2012, 3:26 PM MST for Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 14, 2012, 3:26 PM MST (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2012, 4:30 PM MST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 (KDMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
558
WUUS55 KTWC 142226
SVRTWC
AZC019-023-142330-
/O.NEW.KTWC.SV.W.0073.120814T2226Z-120814T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
326 PM MST TUE AUG 14 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA...
WEST CENTRAL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA...
* UNTIL 430 PM MST
* AT 319 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JUNCTION OF HIGHWAY 286 AND
ARIVACA ROAD...OR 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SELLS...AND MOVING SOUTH AT
10 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ARIVACA...ARIVACA LAKE...SASABE...RUBY AND NEWFIELDS
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3153 11116 3140 11128 3155 11177 3189 11164
3179 11117
TIME...MOT...LOC 2227Z 011DEG 9KT 3170 11148
$$
GL2 follow-up statements
124
WWUS55 KTWC 142258
SVSTWC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
358 PM MST TUE AUG 14 2012
AZC019-023-142330-
/O.CON.KTWC.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-120814T2330Z/
SANTA CRUZ AZ-PIMA AZ-
358 PM MST TUE AUG 14 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM MST
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PIMA AND WEST CENTRAL SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES...
AT 354 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JUNCTION OF HIGHWAY
286 AND ARIVACA ROAD...OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SELLS...MOVING SOUTH
AT 10 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3153 11116 3140 11128 3155 11177 3189 11164
3179 11117
TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 011DEG 9KT 3163 11150
$$
MOLLERE160
WWUS55 KTWC 142326
SVSTWC
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
426 PM MST TUE AUG 14 2012
AZC019-023-142336-
/O.EXP.KTWC.SV.W.0073.000000T0000Z-120814T2330Z/
SANTA CRUZ AZ-PIMA AZ-
426 PM MST TUE AUG 14 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PIMA AND WEST
CENTRAL SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 430 PM MST...
LAT...LON 3153 11116 3140 11128 3155 11177 3189 11164
3179 11117
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 011DEG 9KT 3156 11152
$$
MOLLEREThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 5:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 5:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 6:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 1:35 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 2:13 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 2:32 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 2:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 2:59 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 3:14 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Cochise | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 3:32 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 3:45 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 4:06 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Cochise | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 4:10 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 4:45 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 4:51 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 39 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.