Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 1995, 5:25 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 1995, 5:25 PM MST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 1995, 6:30 PM MST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 220029 COR
FFWPHX
AZC021-220115-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
525 PM MST MON AUG 21 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MST FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA
...SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PINAL COUNTY INCLUDING RED ROCK...PICACHO
...ELOY...CASA GRANDE AND COOLIDGE...
AT 520 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS 5
MILES EAST OF ELOY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING INTERSTATE 10...
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST ABOUT 10 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE WEST OF RED ROCK NEAR THE PIMA COUNTY LINE.
IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING IN THE AREA ALONG INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN
RED ROCK AND CASA GRANDE TO JUST NORTH OF CASA GRANDE...OR ALONG
STATE HIGHWAY 87 BETWEEN ELOY AND COOLIDGE...BE ALERT FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN YOUR AREA OR APPROACHING YOUR AREA.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...
AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AND CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
57 MPH.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM
RAINS.
CRAIG ELLISWhat 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 21, 1:20 PM MST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
AZZ004-212200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 120 PM MST MON AUG 21 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST YAVAPAI COUNTY... AT 120 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER OPEN COUNTRY IN CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST YAVAPAI COUNTY. STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF PRESCOTT AIRPORT...20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRESCOTT...AND 15 MILES WEST OF PRESCOTT. SHOWERS AND A FEW WEAKER STORMS WERE ALSO AFFECTING THE JEROME-CLARKDALE-COTTONWOOD AREA. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AT 10 MILES PER HOUR. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SOUTHEAST OF WILHOIT BETWEEN NOON AND 1:15 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER YAVAPAI AND ADJOINING COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS HIKING OR PARTICIPATING IN OTHER OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST YAVAPAI COUNTY SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND AVOID WASHES AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS. GREEN
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 2:49 PM MST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
AZZ008-212230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 250 PM MST MON AUG 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER FOUNTAIN HILLS... AT 245 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER FOUNTAIN HILLS. MOVEMENT WAS VERY SLOW...TOWARD THE NORTHWEST LESS THAN 10 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER CENTRAL PINAL COUNTY JUST EAST THROUGH SOUTHEAST OF FLORENCE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING THE FLORENCE AREA BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM MST. IF YOU ARE IN THE FOUNTAIN HILLS AREA OR TRAVELLING ALONG HIGHWAY 89 JUST SOUTH OF FLORENCE TO FLORENCE JUNCTION...BE ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH REDUCED VISIBILITY. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION, BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. CRAIG ELLIS
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:30 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AZZ008-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 PM MST MON AUG 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF CAVE CREEK AND CAREFREE... AT 330 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAVE CREEK. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS DISSIPATING BUT OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP IN THE CAREFREE AND CAVECREEK AREA BETWEEN 345 AND 5 PM MST. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. CRAIG ELLIS
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:56 PM MST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
AZZ008-009-010-220100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 355 PM MST MON AUG 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTY... AT 355 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN ORACLE JUNCTION...MAMMOTH AND SAN MANUEL NEAR STATE HIGHWAY 77. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHWEST ABOUT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTY...ESPECIALLY THE AREAS MENTIONED ...BE0 AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LIGHTNING AND LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION..BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY...PREFERABLY INDOORS. CRAIG ELLIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 5:25 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 65 min |
| Aug 22, 2:18 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Pinal | 87 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.