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Blowing Dust Advisory 22, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 20, 2016Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this blowing dust advisory at Aug 20, 2016, 6:34 PM MST for Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 2016, 6:34 PM MST (01:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 2016, 8:00 PM MST
In force
86 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ

Counties Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phoenix, AZ at 00:00Z on 2016-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 612 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phoenix, AZ at 00:00Z on 2016-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 8:33 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTWC42 min
Aug 20, 11:12 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTWC48 min
Aug 21, 12:09 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTWCSanta Cruz36 min
Aug 21, 1:58 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTWC32 min
Aug 21, 2:37 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTWCCochise23 min
Aug 21, 2:42 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTWCPima33 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.