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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Tucson, AZ

September 1, 2025Graham County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2025, 6:31 PM MST for Graham 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
Sep 1, 2025, 6:31 PM MST (01:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 2025, 7:15 PM MST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Tucson, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Graham County, AZ

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Phoenix, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 142 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phoenix, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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 Sep 1, 2:24 PM MST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:24 PM MST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 1, 2:48 PM MST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 5:30 PM MSTDust Storm AdvisoryTWCPinal60 min
Sep 2, 1:23 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima3 hr
Sep 2, 1:43 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima3 hr
Sep 2, 2:32 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima3 hr
Sep 2, 2:39 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima3 hr
Sep 2, 3:02 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryTWCPima3 hr

Nearby

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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.