Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 1, 2016Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2016, 4:58 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 2016, 4:58 PM MST (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2016, 5:30 PM MST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Maricopa County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 1, 5:40 PM MST	HAIL 0.5	1 Ese Goodyear, AZ	MARBLE SIZE HAIL. PICTURE SENT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

267 
WUUS55 KPSR 012358
SVRPSR
AZC013-020030-
/O.NEW.KPSR.SV.W.0013.160701T2358Z-160702T0030Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
458 PM MST FRI JUL 1 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA...

* UNTIL 530 PM MST

* AT 457 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITE TANK MOUNTAIN PARK...OR 8 MILES WEST OF
  WADDELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL MAY ALSO
  ACCOMPANY THE DAMAGING WINDS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PHOENIX...GLENDALE...SURPRISE...AVONDALE...GOODYEAR...BUCKEYE...
  EL MIRAGE...TOLLESON...YOUNGTOWN...CASHION...SUN CITY...WADDELL...
  LITCHFIELD PARK...DOWNTOWN GLENDALE...SURPRISE STADIUM...
  LUKE AFB...GLENDALE SPORTS COMPLEX...CAMELBACK RANCH...
  WHITE TANK MOUNTAIN PARK AND ARROWHEAD MALL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3348 11260 3363 11255 3365 11216 3333 11223
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 284DEG 9KT 3355 11250 

$$

HERNANDEZ

1 follow-up statement

699 
WWUS55 KPSR 020021
SVSPSR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
521 PM MST FRI JUL 1 2016

AZC013-020030-
/O.CON.KPSR.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160702T0030Z/
MARICOPA AZ-
521 PM MST FRI JUL 1 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM MST
FOR NORTHEASTERN MARICOPA COUNTY...

AT 521 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED NEAR LUKE AFB...OR NEAR WADDELL...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THE DAMAGING WINDS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PHOENIX...GLENDALE...SURPRISE...AVONDALE...GOODYEAR...BUCKEYE...
EL MIRAGE...TOLLESON...YOUNGTOWN...CASHION...SUN CITY...WADDELL...
LITCHFIELD PARK...DOWNTOWN GLENDALE...LUKE AFB...
GLENDALE SPORTS COMPLEX...CAMELBACK RANCH...
PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY AND DOWNTOWN PEORIA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR
BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS
WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 3347 11256 3361 11250 3364 11216 3333 11223
      3343 11246
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 284DEG 9KT 3354 11243 

$$

HERNANDEZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 2:56 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	34 min
Jul 1, 3:02 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz	58 min
Jul 1, 3:09 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	36 min
Jul 1, 3:36 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa	114 min
Jul 1, 3:44 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	31 min
Jul 1, 3:49 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		41 min
Jul 1, 4:07 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Gila	38 min
Jul 1, 4:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	34 min
Jul 1, 4:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Gila, Maricopa, Pinal	29 min
Jul 1, 4:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.