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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Tucson, AZ

August 3, 2024Pima County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2024, 4:17 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 21 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 3, 2024, 4:17 PM MST (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2024, 4:38 PM MST
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pima County, AZ

The radar

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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 Aug 3, 2:04 PM MST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:04 PM MST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 3, 2:51 PM MST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 3:24 PM MST, 53 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Tucson AZ
324 PM MST Sat Aug 3 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0315 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     14 ESE Tucson           32.09N 110.69W
08/03/2024  M58 MPH          Pima               AZ   Mesonet

            Weather station measured wind gust of 58
            mph.

&&

JVT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 5:28 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pinal	47 min
Aug 2, 5:51 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	39 min
Aug 2, 6:01 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	44 min
Aug 2, 6:07 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	TWC	Pima	38 min
Aug 2, 6:17 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	28 min
Aug 2, 6:41 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima	3 hr
Aug 2, 6:48 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	42 min
Aug 2, 7:07 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pinal	38 min
Aug 2, 7:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima	2 hr
Aug 2, 7:29 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	TWC	Pinal	2 hr
Aug 2, 7:44 PM MST	Dust Storm Advisory	TWC	Pinal	61 min
Aug 3, 2:19 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	41 min
Aug 3, 2:29 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Santa Cruz	33 min
Aug 3, 2:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	44 min
Aug 3, 3:22 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima, Santa Cruz	18 min
Aug 3, 3:24 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	27 min
Aug 3, 3:41 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima	111 min
Aug 3, 4:13 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	47 min
Aug 3, 4:37 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TWC	Pima	100 min
Aug 3, 4:55 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TWC	Pima	80 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.