[PHX-Skywarn] Severe Thunderstorm Watch - SE Arizona

Stan Weintraub [email protected]
Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:28:44 -0700


Severe Thunderstorm Watch 510

   URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 510
   STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   239 PM MST SUN JUL 14 2002

   THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

      SOUTHEAST ARIZONA

   EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 300  PM UNTIL 900 PM 
MST.

   HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND 
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

   THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 85 STATUTE MILES NORTH 
AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 150 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF TUSCON ARIZONA TO 35 
MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF SAFFORD ARIZONA.

   REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
   PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER 
CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.  SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

   OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...  CONTINUE...

   DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SW NM AND THE WHITE AND 
CHIRICAHUA MTNS OF ERN/SRN AZ EXPECTED TO CONSOLIDATE INTO A CLUSTER...WITH 
ASSOCIATED COLD POOL FOSTERING CELL PROPAGATION TOWARD THE SW/WSW.  
THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS ONCE AGAIN APPEAR
   FAVORABLE FOR STRONG SURFACE WINDS AND PERHAPS HAIL.

   AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 
INCH EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS.
   A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550.  MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 
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