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Blowing Dust Advisory 27, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this blowing dust advisory at Aug 26, 2017, 5:32 PM MST for 4 counties in Arizona. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2017, 5:32 PM MST (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2017, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
Counties Cochise County, AZ, Graham County, AZ, Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 6:10 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 35 min | |
| Aug 26, 6:53 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | 37 min | |
| Aug 27, 4:43 PM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Pima, Pinal | 3 hr |
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.