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Special Weather Statement, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 2, 2016

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 5:52 PM MST. It was in force for 53 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 2, 2016, 5:52 PM MST (00:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2016, 6:45 PM MST
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KDMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 5:17 PM MST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 5:17 PM MST, 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 2, 4:58 PM MST, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
458 PM MST TUE AUG 2 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0446 PM     HEAVY RAIN       5 S NEW RIVER           33.85N 112.14W
08/02/2016  M1.00 INCH       MARICOPA           AZ   TRAINED SPOTTER

            . THE DURATION OF THE HEAVY RAIN EVENT WAS 1
            HOUR.

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NWS PHOENIX AZ
IRIS SYSTEM

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:58 PM MST, 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
458 PM MST TUE AUG 2 2016

AZZ023-030045-
GREATER PHOENIX AREA AZ-
458 PM MST TUE AUG 2 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX HAS ISSUED A

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  MARICOPA COUNTY

UNTIL 545 PM MST

AT 458 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
GLENDALE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PHOENIX...GLENDALE...TEMPE...AVONDALE...GOODYEAR...EL MIRAGE...
PARADISE VALLEY...TOLLESON...YOUNGTOWN...CASHION...SUN CITY...
LAVEEN...LITCHFIELD PARK...DOWNTOWN GLENDALE...SKY HARBOR AIRPORT...
GLENDALE SPORTS COMPLEX...DOWNTOWN PHOENIX...SOUTH PHOENIX...
CAMELBACK RANCH AND METRO CENTER.

LAT...LON 3338 11195 3339 11239 3363 11232 3361 11200
TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 188DEG 0KT 3351 11219

SAWTELLE

Local storm report, Aug 2, 5:30 PM MST, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 5:39 PM MST, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 5:41 PM MST, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:52 PM MST, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 5:12 PM MST	Areal Flood Warning	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 2, 5:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	30 min
Aug 2, 5:46 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 2, 6:26 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	3 hr
Aug 2, 6:56 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	49 min
Aug 2, 7:50 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	3 hr
Aug 2, 8:15 PM MST	Areal Flood Warning	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 2, 8:15 PM MST	Areal Flood Warning	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 3, 8:48 AM MST	Flash Flood Watch	PSR		12 hr
Aug 3, 1:59 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 3, 2:20 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		55 min
Aug 3, 2:26 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Gila, Maricopa, Pinal	3 hr
Aug 3, 3:09 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	51 min
Aug 3, 3:14 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		46 min
Aug 3, 3:33 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	42 min
Aug 3, 3:38 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Gila	52 min
Aug 3, 3:49 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		41 min
Aug 3, 4:01 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	44 min
Aug 3, 4:08 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	37 min
Aug 3, 4:13 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Gila	32 min
Aug 3, 4:21 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	24 min
Aug 3, 4:44 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Gila	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:51 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	39 min

Nearby

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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.