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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 14, 1995Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1995, 1:30 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1995, 1:30 PM MST (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 3:25 PM MST
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Maricopa County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1995-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 392 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 12:00Z on 1995-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPHX 142028
FFWPHX
AZC013-142225-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
130 PM MST FRI JUL 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...SOUTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY
     INCLUDING GILA BEND AND INTERSTATE 8

AT 125 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PHOENIX
SHOWED SLOW-MOVING AND REGENERATING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN SOUTHEAST OF GILA BEND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT
FROM HEAVY RUNOFF INTO WASHES...LOW SPOTS AND OTHER FLASH FLOOD PRONE
AREAS. 
 
DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN PLAY NEAR DRAINAGE DITCHES OR CANALS.

ELLIS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 2:20 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRPinal2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.