Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 1995, 12:10 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 1995, 12:10 PM MST (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 1995, 2:10 PM MST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mohave County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 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 KPHX 141911 FFWPHX AZC015-142110- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 1210 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 210 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA ...EXTREME WESTERN MOHAVE COUNTY INCLUDING BULLHEAD CITY... AT 12 NOON MST...THE BULLHEAD CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLOODING AT SOME INTERSECTIONS OF BULLHEAD CITY FROM RUNNING WASHES. WATER WAS AS HIGH AS 3 FEET AT SOME INTERSECTIONS. TWO PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED IN A VEHICLE CAUGHT IN A FLOODED INTERSECTION OF BULLHEAD CITY. WATER FILLED THE VEHICLE AS HIGH AS THE DOOR HANDLES. A> FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER. CRAIG ELLIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2:30 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 4 hr |
| Feb 14, 4:30 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila | 2 hr |
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.