Outflow Boundary Passes Across Top of Coastal Marine Layer

In the overnight hours of August 14-15, 1996 severe thunderstorms in western Arizona and southeastern California generated strong downdraft-related outflow features.

This page is underdevelopment. Subsynoptic analyses showing the outflow boundary as it moved across the Southern California deserts from the parent thunderstorms in southwestern Arizona will be placed here soon.

Outflow Boundary Passes Across Top of Coastal Marine Layer:
1424 UTC
August 15, 1996
(Courtesy Naval Postgraduate School Monterey)
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Outflow Boundary Passes Across Top of Coastal Marine Layer:
1454 UTC
August 15, 1996
(Courtesy Naval Postgraduate School Monterey)
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Outflow Boundary Passes Across Top of Coastal Marine Layer:
1524 UTC
August 15, 1996
(Courtesy Naval Postgraduate School Monterey)
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Outflow Boundary Passes Across Top of Coastal Marine Layer:
1554 UTC
August 15, 1996
(Courtesy Naval Postgraduate School Monterey)
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Outflow Boundary Passes Across Top of Coastal Marine Layer:
1624 UTC
August 15, 1996
(Courtesy Naval Postgraduate School Monterey)
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