Alert archive / Arizona / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 1994, 1:47 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 1994, 1:47 PM MST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1994, 2:15 PM MST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pima County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUS 112048 TORTUS AZC019-112115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 147 PM MST SUN SEP 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...NORTHEASTERN PIMA COUNTY A WEATHER SPOTTER HAS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE TOWN OF CATALINA. HE SAID THE FUNNEL WAS MOVING TO THE EAST. HE WAS ON HIGHWAY 89 JUST APPROACHING CATALINA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM O\N THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. BARTOLOME
What 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, Sep 11, 1:32 PM MST, 15 minutes before
AZZ009-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 132 PM MST SUN SEP 11 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE GREATER TUCSON AREA... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER THE GREATER TUCSON AREA, WITH SOME WIDELY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS, AND OF COURSE SOME DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. WHILE THESE STORMS DO NOT APPEAR TO BE SEVERE, AT LEAST AT THIS POINT IN TIME, ANY THUNDERSTORM HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN, STRONG GUSTY WIND, AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS OUT IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO INSURE THEIR SAFETY. NWS/BARTOLOME
Special weather statement, Sep 11, 1:33 PM MST, 14 minutes before
AZZ009-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 132 PM MST SUN SEP 11 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE GREATER TUCSON AREA... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER THE GREATER TUCSON AREA, WITH SOME WIDELY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS, AND OF COURSE SOME DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. WHILE THESE STORMS DO NOT APPEAR TO BE SEVERE, AT LEAST AT THIS POINT IN TIME, ANY THUNDERSTORM HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN, SLTRONG GUSTY WIND, AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS OUT IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO INSURE THEIR SAFETY. NWS/BARTOLOME
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 5:55 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 65 min |
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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.