Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1994, 7:31 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 1994, 7:31 PM MST (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 1994, 8:35 PM MST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maricopa County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 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
Local storm report, Aug 26, 5:32 PM MST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
530 PM MST FRI AUG 26 1994
1705 MST...10 POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN... 2 POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN...
2 LRG TREES BLOWN OVER... 1 SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT ALL DUE
TO SEVERE TSTM WNDS.
END
VASQUEZLocal storm report, Aug 26, 5:36 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
530 PM MST FRI AUG 26 1994
1705 MST...10 POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN... 2 POWER POLES BLOWN DOWN...
2 LRG TREES BLOWN OVER... 1 SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT ALL DUE
TO SEVERE TSTM WNDS IN SAFFORD AND VICINITY IN CNTRL
GRAHAM CTY
END
VASQUEZLocal storm report, Aug 26, 6:00 PM MST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
600 PM MST FRI AUG 26 1994
1745 MST...ROOF BLOWN OFF A BUILDING IN THE TOWN OF FORT THOMAS IN
CENTRAL GRAHAM COUNTY.
END
VASQUEZLocal storm report, Aug 26, 6:12 PM MST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
600 PM MST FRI AUG 26 1994
1745 MST...ROOF BLOWN OFF A BUILDING IN THE TOWN OF FORT THOMAS IN
CENTRAL GRAHAM COUNTY.
END
VASQUEZSpecial weather statement, Aug 26, 7:15 PM MST, 16 minutes before
AZZ004-008-270300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 715 PM MST FRI AUG 26 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN LAKE PLEASANT AND I-17... AT 710 PM, PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG I- 17 NEAR THE MARICOPA-YAVAPAI COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES PER HOUR. AS THIS STORM PASSED OVER BLACK CANYON CITY, A SPOTTER REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WINDS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 40 MILES PER HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE LAKE PLEASANT AREA AND MOTORISTS TRAVELING ON I-17 IN NORTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY BETWEEN MILEPOSTS 225 AND 242 SHOULD EXPECT BRIEF, HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO AS HIGH AS 50 MILES PER HOUR BETWEEN 715 AND 745 PM. GREEN
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 7:18 PM MST, 13 minutes before
AZZ004-008-270300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 715 PM MST FRI AUG 26 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN LAKE PLEASANT AND I-17... AT 710 PM, PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG I- 17 NEAR THE MARICOPA-YAVAPAI COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES PER HOUR. AS THIS STORM PASSED OVER BLACK CANYON CITY, A SPOTTER REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WINDS GUSTING IN EXCESS OF 40 MILES PER HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE LAKE PLEASANT AREA AND MOTORISTS TRAVELING ON I-17 IN NORTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY BETWEEN MILEPOSTS 225 AND 242 SHOULD EXPECT BRIEF, HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO AS HIGH AS 50 MILES PER HOUR BETWEEN 715 AND 7p45 PM. GREEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:31 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 9:35 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 40 min |
| Aug 26, 9:57 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 58 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.