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Heat Advisory 3, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 5, 2017Gila County, Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this heat advisory at Jul 5, 2017, 4:51 AM MST for Gila County, Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It took effect at Jul 7, 2017, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2017, 4:51 AM MST (11:51 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 7, 2017, 10:00 AM MST
Expired
Jul 7, 2017, 8:00 PM MST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ

Counties Gila County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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

Tuscon, AZ (KDMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2017-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2017-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.