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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Phoenix, AZ

March 20, 2022La Paz County, Yuma County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at Mar 20, 2022, 12:58 PM MST for La Paz County, Yuma County, Arizona. It took effect at Mar 20, 2022, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 20, 2022, 12:58 PM MST (19:58 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 20, 2022, 11:00 PM MST
Expired: Mar 21, 2022, 7:07 PM MST
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ

Counties La Paz County, AZ, Yuma County, AZ

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2299 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 20, 11:47 AM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 11:47 AM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 2:25 AM MST	Wind Advisory	PSR	La Paz	41 hr
Mar 20, 12:58 PM MST	Blowing Dust Advisory	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	30 hr
Mar 20, 3:19 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Pinal	26 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.