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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2016, 12:50 PM MST for Greenlee County, Arizona. It was in force for 25 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 29, 2016, 12:50 PM MST (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2016, 1:15 PM MST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
County Greenlee County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KDMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 1605 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 29, 9:19 AM MST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 9:19 AM MST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 12:50 PM MST, 0 minutes before
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</html>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 29, 9:33 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 9 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:34 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 41 min |
| Jul 29, 1:52 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Greenlee | 38 min |
| Jul 29, 2:15 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 45 min |
| Jul 29, 2:29 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Graham | 46 min |
| Jul 29, 3:17 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Graham, Greenlee | 58 min |
| Jul 29, 3:23 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 37 min |
| Jul 29, 3:34 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 41 min |
| Jul 29, 3:45 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 45 min | |
| Jul 29, 3:50 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima, Santa Cruz | 55 min |
| Jul 29, 4:17 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Pima, Pinal | 58 min |
| Jul 29, 4:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 57 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.