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Blowing Dust Advisory 10, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 12, 2021Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this blowing dust advisory at Jul 12, 2021, 2:01 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It took effect at Jul 12, 2021, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 2021, 2:01 PM MST (21:01 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 12, 2021, 5:00 PM MST
Expired
Jul 12, 2021, 11:00 PM MST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ

Counties Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 12:00Z on 2021-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 280 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 12:00Z on 2021-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-525 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing dust advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this blowing dust advisory went out at Jul 12, 2:00 PM MST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:00 PM MST, 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 1:34 PM MSTFlash Flood WatchPSRGila, La Paz, Maricopa, Pinal45 hr

Nearby

Blowing Dust Advisories in Arizona, 2021Every blowing dust advisory in 2021

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.