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Dust Storm Warning 13, NWS Phoenix, AZ

June 29, 2022Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this dust storm warning at Jun 29, 2022, 2:55 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2022, 2:55 PM MST (21:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2022, 3:18 PM MST
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon

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 21:56 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, 9.9 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 2022-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 395 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 2022-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
395 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:51 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR39 min
Jun 29, 11:49 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR26 min
Jun 29, 12:30 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryPSRMaricopa, Pinal60 min
Jun 29, 1:06 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryPSRMaricopa, Pinal24 min
Jun 29, 1:41 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRMaricopa79 min
Jun 29, 2:12 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryPSRMaricopa, Pinal65 min
Jun 29, 2:27 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryPSRMaricopa69 min
Jun 29, 2:46 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryPSRMaricopa, Pinal34 min
Jun 29, 2:50 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRPinal40 min
Jun 29, 3:10 PM MSTDust Storm WarningPSRMaricopa, Pinal25 min
Jun 29, 3:34 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryPSRMaricopa, Pinal56 min
Jun 29, 3:49 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR41 min
Jun 29, 4:14 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR46 min
Jun 29, 4:39 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSRYuma51 min
Jun 29, 4:59 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPSR76 min

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.