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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2023, 2:06 PM MST for La Paz County, Arizona. It was in force for 39 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 13, 2023, 2:06 PM MST (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2023, 2:45 PM MST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County La Paz County, AZ
The radar
The Yuma radar (KYUX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 13, 11:02 AM MST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 11:02 AM MST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 5:05 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Gila | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:09 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | La Paz | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 12:29 PM MST | Excessive Heat Watch | PSR | Maricopa, Yuma | 24 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:31 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 44 min | |
| Aug 13, 12:48 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 27 min | |
| Aug 13, 12:58 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | La Paz | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 1:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 1:10 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 1:21 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 1:24 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | La Paz | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 1:39 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 1:47 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Maricopa | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 1:54 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 1:56 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | La Paz | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 2:28 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | La Paz | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:52 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 53 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:55 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Maricopa | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 3:27 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 48 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:54 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 36 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:43 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Riverside | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:05 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
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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.