Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 4:32 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1994, 4:32 PM MST (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1994, 5:35 PM MST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gila County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:00 PM MST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
AZZALL-020430- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 100 PM MST FRI JUL 1 1994 ...POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARIZONA TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE AREA TARGETED FOR SEVERE STORMS IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BLYTHE, CA TO 40 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF PRESCOTT TO FLAGSTAFF TO 45 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF PAGE. THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG, GUSTY DAMAGING WINDS. THE DAMAGING WINDS WILL OCCUR AS SMALL INTENSE DOWNBURSTS OR MICROBURSTS WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE IN THE DESERT AREAS, WITH PEA SIZE TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL POSSIBLE IN THE HIGHER MOUNTAIN LOCATIONS. FREQUENT, INTENSE LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANYING THE STORMS, AND CAUTION IS ADVISED. PERSONS PLANNING ON BEING OUT AND ABOUT IN ARIZONA TODAY ARE URGED TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS, WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE IN THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE STATE AS THE DAY WEARS ON. BENNETT
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:22 PM MST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AZZALL-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 230 PM MST FRI JUL 1 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE ON THE INCREASE... AT 2 PM DOPPLER RADAR AT PHOENIX SHOWED AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE STATE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ALONG STATE ROUTE 69, NEAR MAYER. THIS THUNDERSTORM APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS, AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. THUS MOTORISTS IN THIS AREA WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION. ANOTHER AREA OF RATHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE MOGOLLON RIM NEAR HEBER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING OVER A GOOD SHARE OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA, AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA COULD BECOME SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS PLANNING ON BEING OUT AND ABOUT TODAY ARE URGED TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. PERFREMENT
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:30 PM MST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AZZALL-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 230 PM MST FRI JUL 1 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE ON THE INCREASE... AT 2 PM DOPPLER RADAR AT PHOENIX SHOWED AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE STATE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ALONG STATE ROUTE 69, NEAR MAYER. THIS THUNDERSTORM APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS, AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. THUS MOTORISTS IN THIS AREA WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION. ANOTHER AREA OF RATHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG THE MOGOLLON RIM NEAR HEBER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING OVER A GOOD SHARE OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA, AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA COULD BECOME SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS PLANNING ON BEING OUT AND ABOUT TODAY ARE URGED TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. PERFREMENT
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:20 PM MST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
AZZALL-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 PM MST FRI JUL 1 1994 AT 315 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER MAINLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARIZONA. DOPPLENR RADAR SHOWED A BRAOD AREA OF RATHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR MAYER EAST THROUGH THE CAMP
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:29 PM MST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
AZZALL-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 PM MST FRI JUL 1 1994 AT 315 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER MAINLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARIZONA. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BRAOD AREA OF RATHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR MAYER EAST THROUGH THE CAMP VERDE AREA. THE STRONGEST CELL IN THIS AREA WAS LOCATED ALONG STATE ROUTE 260 WEST OF PINE. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY TOWARD THE EAST OR SOUTHEAST, BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH, AND COULD REACH THE PINE/STRAWBERRY AREA BY AROUND 4 PM MST. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRESENT ALONG AND NEAR INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN WILLIAMS AND SELIGMAN, WITH A MAXIMIMUM OF ACTIVITY NEAR ASH FORK AT 315 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS OF NOTE WERE LOCATED ALONG THE MOGOLLON RIM, FROM FLAGSTAFF EAST TO HEBER. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND INTENSIFICATION WILL TAKE PLACE, AND PERSONS OUT AND ABOUT NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA WILL NEED TO USEb CAUTION, AND FOLLOW CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. PERFREMENT
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:30 PM MST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
AZZALL-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 PM MST FRI JUL 1 1994 AT 315 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER MAINLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF ARIZONA. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A BRAOD AREA OF RATHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR MAYER EAST THROUGH THE CAMP VERDE AREA. THE STRONGEST CELL IN THIS AREA WAS LOCATED ALONG STATE ROUTE 260 WEST OF PINE. MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY TOWARD THE EAST OR SOUTHEAST, BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH, AND COULD REACH THE PINE/STRAWBERRY AREA BY AROUND 4 PM MST. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRESENT ALONG AND NEAR INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN WILLIAMS AND SELIGMAN, WITH A MAXIMIMUM OF ACTIVITY NEAR ASH FORK AT 315 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS OF NOTE WERE LOCATED ALONG THE MOGOLLON RIM, FROM FLAGSTAFF EAST TO HEBER. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND INTENSIFICATION WILL TAKE PLACE, AND PERSONS OUT AND ABOUT NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION, AND FOLLOW CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. PERFREMENT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 3:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila | 42 min |
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.