Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 11:57 AM MST for Apache County, Arizona. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1995, 11:57 AM MST (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1995, 12:30 PM MST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Apache County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 KFLG 131857 RRA SVRFLG AZC001-131930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 1157 AM MST THU JUL 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA ...SOUTH CENTRAL APACHE COUNTY AT 1130 AM MST...A WEATHER OBSERVER AT THE ST JOHNS AIRPORT REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 71 MILES PER HOUR AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE ST JOHNS AREA. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES PER HOUR AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM UNTIL 1230 PM MST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD&. SIGLER & NNNN
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 13, 10:14 AM MST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
AZZ002-131800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 1010 AM MST THU JUL 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST COCONINO COUNTY... AT 950 AM...LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN ARIZONA IN NORTHWEST COCONINO COUNTY OVER THE HUALAPAI RESERVATION...ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF THE GRAND CANYON VILLAGE. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS TOWARDS THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER. LISTEN FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS STORM SITUATION THROUGH LOCAL MEDIA OR BY TUNING IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO. SIGLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 12:08 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 37 min |
| Jul 13, 12:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 43 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.