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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2013, 1:50 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 40 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 7, 2013, 1:50 PM MST (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2013, 2:30 PM MST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
County Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 7, 9:00 AM MST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 9:00 AM MST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:50 PM MST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 150 PM MST SUN JUL 7 2013 AZZ503-507-513-072130- DRAGOON/MULE/HUACHUCA AND SANTA RITA MOUNTAINS INCLUDING BISBEE/CANELO HILLS/MADERA CANYON AZ-UPPER SAN PEDRO RIVER VALLEY INCLUDING SIERRA VISTA/BENSON AZ-UPPER SANTA CRUZ RIVER AND ALTAR VALLEYS INCLUDING NOGALES AZ- 150 PM MST SUN JUL 7 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM MST... AT 142 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF NOGALES...JUST EAST OF PATAGONIA...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PATAGONIA AND SONOITA. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3154 11086 3171 11063 3154 11054 3141 11072 TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 162DEG 4KT 3150 11064 MEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 6, 6:07 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 38 min | |
| Jul 6, 7:21 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham | 114 min |
| Jul 6, 7:22 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Graham | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 7:46 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pima | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 8:05 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 8:12 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:57 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pinal | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 9:00 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 10:11 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pinal | 94 min |
| Jul 7, 12:44 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:01 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 3:25 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 3:40 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 50 min | |
| Jul 7, 3:51 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 54 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.