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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Tucson, AZ

July 16, 2022Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2022, 1:54 PM MST for Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 51 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: Jul 16, 2022, 1:54 PM MST (20:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2022, 2:45 PM MST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -365 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Jul 16, 10:00 AM MST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 10:00 AM MST, 3 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:50 PM MST, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 5:00 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	45 min
Jul 15, 5:11 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	2 hr
Jul 15, 5:13 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Jul 15, 5:18 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima, Pinal	3 hr
Jul 15, 5:42 PM MST	Dust Storm Advisory	TWC	Pima, Pinal	93 min
Jul 15, 5:52 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Pinal	38 min
Jul 15, 5:53 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC		52 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Jul 15, 6:08 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Jul 15, 6:13 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Pinal	47 min
Jul 15, 6:48 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Pinal	42 min
Jul 16, 11:20 AM MST	Blowing Dust Advisory	TWC	Pima, Pinal	10 hr
Jul 16, 1:50 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Santa Cruz	40 min
Jul 16, 2:45 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Santa Cruz	45 min
Jul 16, 3:21 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Santa Cruz	39 min
Jul 16, 3:46 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	44 min
Jul 16, 3:51 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	TWC	Santa Cruz	39 min
Jul 16, 4:06 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Santa Cruz	39 min
Jul 16, 4:28 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	47 min
Jul 16, 4:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Santa Cruz	45 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.