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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Tucson, AZ

July 20, 2024Santa Cruz County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2024, 1:06 PM MST for Santa Cruz 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
Jul 20, 2024, 1:06 PM MST (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2024, 1:45 PM MST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Santa Cruz County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 72 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2024-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 458 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 2024-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
458 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-273 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2374 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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 20, 8:54 AM MST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:54 AM MST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 5:02 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima77 min
Jul 19, 5:13 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryTWCCochise62 min
Jul 19, 7:00 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima3 hr
Jul 19, 7:20 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima3 hr
Jul 19, 7:34 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima116 min
Jul 20, 2:28 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryTWCCochise92 min
Jul 20, 3:19 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCCochise102 min
Jul 20, 3:55 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise, Pima50 min
Jul 20, 4:00 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryTWCCochise90 min
Jul 20, 4:23 PM MSTDust Storm WarningTWCPima52 min
Jul 20, 4:25 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise, Pima, Santa Cruz50 min
Jul 20, 4:34 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCCochise116 min
Jul 20, 4:35 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCGraham, Pinal40 min
Jul 20, 4:43 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningTWCPima, Santa Cruz3 hr
Jul 20, 4:43 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise, Pima47 min
Jul 20, 4:53 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWCCochise52 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.