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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this high wind watch at Feb 20, 2023, 2:12 AM MST for 5 counties in Arizona. It took effect at Feb 22, 2023, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2023, 2:12 AM MST (09:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2023, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2023, 2:20 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
Counties Cochise County, AZ, Graham County, AZ, Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 344 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 19, 3:27 PM MST, 10 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 3:27 PM MST, 10 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 2:20 PM MST | Wind Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 54 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:21 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal | 57 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.