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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2022, 2:11 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 15, 2022, 2:11 PM MST (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2022, 3:00 PM MST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Cochise County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 15, 2:05 PM MST, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 2:05 PM MST, 6 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 15, 12:30 PM MST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tucson AZ
1230 PM MST Mon Aug 15 2022
AZZ503-507-513-152015-
Upper San Pedro River Valley including Sierra
Vista/Benson-Dragoon/Mule/Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains including
Bisbee/Canelo Hills/Madera Canyon-Upper Santa Cruz River and Altar
Valleys including Nogales-
1230 PM MST Mon Aug 15 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Cochise
and southeastern Santa Cruz Counties through 115 PM MST...
At 1229 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Parker Canyon Lake, or 13 miles west of Sierra Vista, moving
northwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Elgin, Fort Huachuca, Parker Canyon Lake, Ramsey Canyon Preserve and
Canelo.
This includes Route 83 between mile markers 3 and 23.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3138 11027 3134 11051 3143 11060 3160 11066
3164 11042
TIME...MOT...LOC 1929Z 138DEG 7KT 3148 11045
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
GLZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 5:00 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:33 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | TWC | Pinal | 42 min |
| Aug 14, 6:14 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | TWC | Pinal | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 6:35 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Pima | 40 min |
| Aug 14, 7:54 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Pima | 9 hr |
| Aug 14, 8:00 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Graham | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 12:30 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Santa Cruz | 45 min |
| Aug 15, 12:34 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 12:52 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 113 min |
| Aug 15, 12:59 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Santa Cruz | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:20 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Santa Cruz | 115 min |
| Aug 15, 1:32 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:36 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 2:15 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TWC | Santa Cruz | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:08 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Cochise | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 3:48 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TWC | Cochise | 42 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.