Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1995, 2:20 PM MST for Graham County, Arizona. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1995, 2:20 PM MST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1995, 3:15 PM MST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 10, 1:30 PM MST, 50 minutes before
AZZ010-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 130 PM MST THU AUG 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY... AT 1:15 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY NEAR THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING MOSTLY TO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH AND COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WHILE THESE STORMS APPEAR TO BE MOSTLY OVER THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS AWAY FROM ANY TOWNS...PERSONS IN MAMMOTH AND SAN MANUEL...IN EASTERN PINAL COUNTY...SHOULD BE ON ALERT FOR STRONG WINDS AND BLOWING DUST UNTIL ABOUT 230 PM MST. BERKOVITZ
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:35 PM MST, 45 minutes before
AZZ010-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 130 PM MST THU AUG 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST GRAHAM COUNTY... AT 1:15 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHEAST GRAHAM COUNTY NEAR THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING MOSTLY TO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH AND COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WHILE THESE STORMS APPEAR TO BE MOSTLY OVER THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS AWAY FROM ANY TOWNS...PERSONS IN MAMMOTH AND SAN MANUEL...IN EASTERN PINAL COUNTY...SHOULD BE ON ALERT FOR STRONG WINDS AND BLOWING DUST UNTIL UNTIL ABOUT 230 PM MST. BERKOVITZ
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:38 PM MST, 42 minutes before
AZZ010-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 130 PM MST THU AUG 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST GRAHAM COUNTY... AT 1:15 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY NEAR THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING MOSTLY TO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH AND COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WHILE THESE STORMS APPEAR TO BE MOSTLY OVER THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS AWAY FROM ANY TOWNS...PERSONS IN MAMMOTH AND SAN MANUEL...IN EASTERN PINAL COUNTY...SHOULD BE ON ALERT FOR STRONG WINDS AND BLOWING DUST UNTIL ABOUT 230 PM MST. BERKOVITZ
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:41 PM MST, 39 minutes before
AZZ010-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 130 PM MST THU AUG 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY... AT 1:15 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY NEAR THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING MOSTLY TO THE NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH AND COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WHILE THESE STORMS APPEAR TO BE MOSTLY OVER THE GALIURO MOUNTAINS AWAY FROM ANY TOWNS...PERSONS IN MAMMOTH AND SAN MANUEL...IN EASTERN PINAL COUNTY...SHOULD BE ON ALERT FOR STRONG WINDS AND BLOWING DUST UNTIL ABOUT 230 PM MST. BERKOVITZ
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.