Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2023, 3:46 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 44 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 25, 2023, 3:46 PM MST (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2023, 4:30 PM MST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Mohave County, AZ
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 301 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
- 3600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 1:13 PM MST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 1:13 PM MST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:09 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 12:36 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 114 min |
| Jul 25, 2:32 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 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.