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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Tucson, AZ

July 15, 2024Cochise County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2024, 1:14 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 22 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 15, 2024, 1:14 PM MST (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2024, 1:36 PM MST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 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 20:16 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, 8.2 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.

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: 335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -288 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 15, 8:55 AM MST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 8:55 AM MST, 4 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 15, 8:21 AM MST, 4 hours 53 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 14, 5:04 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pima	116 min
Jul 14, 5:29 PM MST	Dust Storm Advisory	TWC	Pima, Pinal	61 min
Jul 14, 5:29 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Cochise, Pima	118 min
Jul 14, 5:39 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise, Pima, Pinal	66 min
Jul 14, 5:48 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Cochise, Pima	3 hr
Jul 14, 6:00 PM MST	Tornado Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	15 min
Jul 14, 6:04 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	91 min
Jul 14, 6:22 PM MST	Tornado Warning	TWC	Pima	23 min
Jul 14, 6:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	64 min
Jul 14, 6:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima, Pinal	45 min
Jul 14, 6:47 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Jul 14, 6:49 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pinal	30 min
Jul 14, 7:01 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima, Pinal	3 hr
Jul 14, 7:24 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima, Pinal	51 min
Jul 14, 8:11 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	49 min
Jul 15, 2:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	45 min
Jul 15, 2:39 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Graham, Greenlee	3 hr
Jul 15, 2:49 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	41 min
Jul 15, 2:59 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise	2 hr
Jul 15, 3:11 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	49 min
Jul 15, 3:38 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Cochise	112 min
Jul 15, 3:44 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Cochise	61 min
Jul 15, 4:03 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	20 min
Jul 15, 4:21 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	39 min
Jul 15, 4:37 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Santa Cruz	38 min
Jul 15, 4:39 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	51 min
Jul 15, 4:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Cochise	38 min
Jul 15, 4:54 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Cochise	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.