http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060725_rpts.html

0545 99 PHOENIX MARICOPA AZ 3354 11207
FAA CENTER FIELD TOWER PHX AIRPORT. SENSOR BELIEVED TO BE AT 150 FOOT
LEVEL (PSR)

Thanks; that's interesting. As there are few storms in Phoenix, so I
suspect that must have been a downdraft from the hot weather
there...sometimes in Phoenix the air gets so hot (120F) that the air
is too thin for planes to safely take off.

RL


Bush's Global Warming Dereliction of Duty wrote:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060725_rpts.html

0545 99 PHOENIX MARICOPA AZ 3354 11207
FAA CENTER FIELD TOWER PHX AIRPORT. SENSOR BELIEVED TO BE AT 150 FOOT
LEVEL (PSR)

In article . com,
says...
Thanks; that's interesting. As there are few storms in Phoenix, so I
suspect that must have been a downdraft from the hot weather
there...sometimes in Phoenix the air gets so hot (120F) that the air
is too thin for planes to safely take off.

RL


Bush's Global Warming Dereliction of Duty wrote:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060725_rpts.html

0545 99 PHOENIX MARICOPA AZ 3354 11207
FAA CENTER FIELD TOWER PHX AIRPORT. SENSOR BELIEVED TO BE AT 150 FOOT
LEVEL (PSR)



Well, you're incredibly wrong again. Radar from 10 minutes after the
report:

http://tinyurl.com/eaxsy

The report wouldn't have been in the database of severe weather
associated with thunderstorms from the original post if it wasn't
associated with a thunderstorm. Phoenix gets a reasonable number of
convective wind gusts associated with storms at this time of year. The
climatological probability of severe thunderstorm winds in the Phoenix
area on any particular day in late July is a little less than 2%. The
peak anywhere in the country this time of year is about 5%.

Harold
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Harold Brooks
Head, Mesoscale Applications Group
NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory