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Blowing Dust Advisory 32, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this blowing dust advisory at Sep 14, 2017, 2:35 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2017, 2:35 PM MST (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2017, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
County Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 1:08 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pinal | 82 min |
| Sep 14, 2:27 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pinal | 93 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.