Alert archive / Arizona / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1994, 2:24 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1994, 2:24 PM MST (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1994, 3:00 PM MST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pima County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 2609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTUS 072125
TORTUS
AZC019-072200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
224 PM MST MON MAR 7 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA
...NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY
CENTRAL PORTION OF THE GREATER TUCSON AREA
...TORNADO OVER TUCSON...
AT 222 PM MST PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO OVER
TUCSON. THIS FUNNEL WAS VISIBLE ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF THE AIRPORT.
LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED. THIS TORNADO SHOULD DISSIPATE WITHIN 30
MINUTES.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.
WEBERWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 7, 1:55 PM MST, 29 minutes before
AZC019-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 155 PM MST MON MAR 7 1994 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING TUCSON... AT 150 PM MST A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING JUST WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE GREATER TUCSON AREA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF THE CITY DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE SOME DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL, HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SOME FLOODING OF CITY STREETS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. AFTER THIS LINE OF STORMS MOVES THROUGH THE AREA, MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES YOUR WAY, SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO RADIO AND TV OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WEATHER WARNINGS. WEBER
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 1:58 PM MST, 26 minutes before
AZC019-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 155 PM MST MON MAR 7 1994 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING TUCSON... AT 150 PM MST A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING JUST WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE GREATER TUCSON AREA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF THE CITY DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE SOME DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNIN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL, HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SOME FLOODING OF CITY STREETS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. AFTER THIS LINE OF STORMS MOVES THROUGH THE AREA, MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORRfOW. IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES YOUR WAY, SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO RADIO AND TV OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WEATHER WARNINGS. WEBER
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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.