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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 6, 2021Santa Cruz County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2021, 1:26 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 6, 2021, 1:26 PM MST (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2021, 2:00 PM MST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Santa Cruz County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

227 
WUUS55 KTWC 062026
SVRTWC
AZC023-062100-
/O.NEW.KTWC.SV.W.0107.210806T2026Z-210806T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Tucson AZ
126 PM MST Fri Aug 6 2021

The National Weather Service in Tucson has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Southeastern Santa Cruz County in southeastern Arizona...

* Until 200 PM MST.

* At 125 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles west of 
  Parker Canyon Lake, or 20 miles east of Nogales, moving west at 5 
  mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Lochiel.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3137 11079 3159 11069 3157 11054 3148 11046
      3145 11046 3133 11053 3133 11078 3134 11078
TIME...MOT...LOC 2025Z 107DEG 15KT 3143 11060 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

KG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 5:21 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Pima	39 min
Aug 6, 12:52 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Santa Cruz	38 min
Aug 6, 1:16 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise, Santa Cruz	3 hr
Aug 6, 1:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Santa Cruz	47 min
Aug 6, 2:05 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Santa Cruz	115 min
Aug 6, 2:29 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	31 min
Aug 6, 2:36 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Pima	24 min
Aug 6, 2:43 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Graham	2 hr
Aug 6, 2:46 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise, Graham	44 min
Aug 6, 2:51 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Santa Cruz	24 min
Aug 6, 2:57 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Santa Cruz	33 min
Aug 6, 3:00 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Santa Cruz	2 hr
Aug 6, 3:10 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Santa Cruz	3 hr
Aug 6, 3:16 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	119 min
Aug 6, 3:26 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	2 hr
Aug 6, 3:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	29 min
Aug 6, 3:40 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise	3 hr
Aug 6, 3:46 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Santa Cruz	29 min
Aug 6, 3:57 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima, Santa Cruz	4 hr
Aug 6, 3:59 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	46 min
Aug 6, 4:12 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	2 hr
Aug 6, 4:19 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise	116 min
Aug 6, 4:55 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	2 hr
Aug 6, 4:58 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Pima	32 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.