A brief gust from an outflow boundary of a nearby thunderstorm caused a wind gust to 60 mph at Nogales airport.
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A brief gust from an outflow boundary of a nearby thunderstorm caused a wind gust to 60 mph at Nogales airport.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 28, 1:55 PM MST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 155 PM MST SAT JUN 28 2008 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT CENTERED OVER NORTHERN MEXICO WILL MOVE NORTH TO NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS REGION BY MONDAY. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY AS THE UPPER HIGH MOVES NORTHWARD. OTHERWISE...HOT DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE DURING THE UPCOMING WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...KEMX WSR-88D DETECTED ISOLATED 30-45 DBZ ECHOES MOVING SWWD ACROSS COCHISE AND ERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES AT 2050Z. SCATTERED MOSTLY LESS THAN 40 DBZ ECHOES WERE MOVING SWWD ACROSS THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. THE REST OF SE AZ WAS VOID OF PRECIP ECHOES AT THIS TIME. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED CLEAR SKIES ACROSS SE PINAL AND FAR WRN PIMA COUNTIES...WITH SCATTERED-BROKEN CUMULOFORM CLOUDS ELSEWHERE. SOME UNCERTAINTY WITH REGARD TO POTENTIAL SOUTHWESTWARD MOVEMENT OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ONGOING VICINITY WHITE MOUNTAINS FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 28/12Z NAM AND LATEST RUC INDICATE SHOWERS/ THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN WELL EAST AND SOUTH OF THE TUCSON METRO AREA THIS EVENING. WILL STILL REFLECT 10-20 PERCENT POPS TUCSON METRO AREA EWD THIS EVENING WITH DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS SE PINAL AND FAR WRN PIMA COUNTY. AT THIS TIME BELIEVE THE BULK OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL END ACROSS MUCH OF SE AZ BY MIDNIGHT. HOWEVER... WILL MAINTAIN ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NRN GREENLEE COUNTY WITH DRY CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. LOW-LEVEL ELY FLOW TO INCREASE SUN AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY SUN NIGHT AS SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS IN RESPONSE TO HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING SWD ACROSS THE SRN ROCKIES/HIGH PLAINS. CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO INCREASE SUN AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND THE 28/12Z NAM IS FAVORING THIS SCENARIO VERSUS THE 28/12Z GFS SOLUTION. UPPER HIGH PROGGED TO BE OVER NRN AZ/SRN UTAH REGION MON WITH FLOW ALOFT OVER SE AZ BECOMING INCREASINGLY NELY. CONVECTIVE INITIATION SHOULD OCCUR VICINITY MOGOLLON RIM LATE MON MORNING/EARLY MON AFTERNOON WITH SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO MOVE SWWD MON EVENING. THEREAFTER...HAVE OPTED TO REFLECT LOW-GRADE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY DURING THE TUE-SAT PERIOD. DAYTIME HIGH TEMPS EXPECTED TO AVERAGE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGHOUT THIS FORECAST PERIOD. && .FIRE WEATHER...HOT DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR SUNDAY AND INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. EXPECT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS FIRE ZONE 146 AND EASTERN ZONE 148...AND DRY CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS DEEPER MOISTURE MOVES INTO THE AREA. GUSTY AND ERRATIC WINDS WILL OCCUR VICINITY THUNDERSTORMS. && .AVIATION...SCATTERED-BROKEN CLOUDS KTUS VICINITY EWD WITH BASES AROUND 9-11K FT AGL INTO SUNDAY MORNING. MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WEST OF KTUS. ISOLATED TSRA/SHRA KTUS VICINITY EASTWARD INTO THIS EVENING... WITH SOME GUSTS APPROACHING 45 KTS NEAR TSTMS. SHRA/TSRA EXPECTED TO END AROUND 06Z. SURFACE WINDS NWLY 5-15 KTS...THEN SLY/SELY LESS THAN 10 KTS AFTER 06Z. SURFACE WINDS ELY 5-15 KTS SUNDAY. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR TAF AMENDMENTS. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:07 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The automated surface observing system measured a wind gust to 60 mph from a nearby thunderstorm.
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