Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 1995, 8:45 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 8:45 PM MST (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 10:15 PM MST
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maricopa County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 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 160348 FFWPHX AZC013-160515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 845 PM MST SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA ...EXTREME WEST CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY AT 845 PM...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REPEATEDLY MOVING FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS FAR WESTERN MARICOPA COUNTY. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT FROM ONE TO OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE CENTENNIAL WASH FROM WHERE IT ENTERS MARICOPA COUNTY EXTENDING TO JUST WEST OF ARLINGTON. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME FARMS IN THE AREA ARE BECOMING INUNDATED AND THAT ASSOCIATED FARM ROADS COULD BE FLOODED. MOTORISTS IN THE AREA SHOULD AVOID WASHES...ESPECIALLY THE CENTENNIAL WASH...AS WELL AS DIPS AND LOW SPOTS IN COUNTY AND FARM ROADWAYS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. ESTLE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 15, 6:05 PM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AZZ001-160300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 605 PM MST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA... STRONG WINDS...ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRESENT EARLIER IN THE DAY...PASSED THROUGH PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA FROM ABOUT 4 PM TO AFTER 5 PM. WIND GUSTS TO OVER 50 MPH WERE REPORTED AT BULLHEAD CITY...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AT KINGMAN. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE PRESENT FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. THERE COULD ALSO BE BRIEF PERIODS OF BLOWING DUST/SAND. THUS MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION...ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES OR PULLING TRAILERS. PERFREMENT
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:06 PM MST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AZZ001-160300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 605 PM MST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA... STRONG WINDS...ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRESENT EARLIER IN THE DAY...PASSED THROUGH PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA FROM ABOUT 4 PM TO AFTER 5 PM. WIND GUSTS TO OVER 50 MPH WERE REPORTED AT BULLHEAD CITY...WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH AT KINGMAN. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE PRESENT FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. THERE COULD ALSO BE BRIEF PERIODS OF BLOWING DUST/SAND. THUS MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION...ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES OR PULLING TRAILERS. PERFREMENT
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:20 PM MST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AZZ005-007-008-160330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 620 PM MST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS CENTRAL ARIZONA... AT 620 PM...PHOENIX DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR THE CAVE CREEK AND CARE FREE AREA...OVER SOUTHERN YAVAPAI COUNTY BETWEEN WICKENBURG AND CROWN KING AND ALSO FURTHER TO THE WEST ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SALOME NEAR THE YUMA AND LAPAZ COUNTY LINES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO BETWEEN 40 TO 50 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. ESTLE
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 6:23 PM MST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
AZZ005-007-008-160330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 620 PM MST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS CENTRAL ARIZONA... AT 620 PM...PHOENIX DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR THE CAVE CREEK AND CARE FREE AREA...OVER SOUTHERN YAVAPAI COUNTY BETWEEN WICKENBURG AND CROWN KING AND ALSO FURTHER TO THE WEST ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SALOME NEAR THE YUMA AND LAPAZ COUNTY LINES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO BETWEEN 40 TO 50 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. ESTLE
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 8:05 PM MST, 40 minutes before
AZZ008-007-160500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 805 PM MST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PHOENIX AT 8 PM INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOSTLY OVER THE OPEN DESERT SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 FROM WEST CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY EXTENDING INTO FAR SOUTHERN LA PAZ AND NORTHERN YUMA COUNTIES. THE PRIMARY THREAT ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPEARED TO BE HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES WERE FROM A HALF INCH TO OVER AN INCH AND THREE QUARTERS MAINLY OVER THE OPEN DESERT SOUTHWEST OF TONOPAH. PERSONS HIKING OR DRIVING OFF-ROAD VEHICLES OUT IN THE OPEN DESERT OF FAR WEST CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY EXTENDING INTO FAR NORTHEAST YUMA AND FAR SOUTHEAST LA PAZ COUNTIES SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR RUNNING WASHES...PONDING OF WATER AND THE DANGERS THEY PRESENT. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT ABOUT 10 TO 15 MPH. ESTLE
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 8:07 PM MST, 38 minutes before
AZZ008-007-160500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 805 PM MST SAT JUL 15 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PHOENIX AT 8 PM INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOSTLY OVER THE OPEN DESERT SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 FROM WEST CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY EXTENDING INTO FAR SOUTHERN LA PAZ AND NORTHERN YUMA COUNTIES. THE PRIMARY THREAT ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPEARED TO BE HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES WERE FROM A HALF INCH TO OVER AN INCH AND THREE QUARTERS MAINLY OVER THE OPEN DESERT SOUTHWEST OF TONOPAH. PERSONS HIKING OR DRIVING OFF-ROAD VEHICLES OUT IN THE OPEN DESERT OF FAR WEST CENTRAL MARICOPA COUNTY EXTENDING INTO FAR NORTHEAST YUMA AND FAR SOUTHEAST LA PAZ COUNTIES SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR RUNNING WASHES...PONDING OF WATER AND THE DANGERS THEY PRESENT. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT ABOUT 10 TO 15 MPH. ESTLE
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.