Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1995, 4:39 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 4:39 PM MST (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1995, 5:40 PM MST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yavapai County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 062345 FFWPHX AZC025-013-070040- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 439 PM MST WED SEP 06 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA ...EXTREME SOUTHERN YAVAPAI COUNTY...NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ROCK SPRINGS ALONG INTERSTATE 17... IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA ...EXTREME NORTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY...NEAR LAKE PLEASANT AND THE TOWN OF NEW RIVER ALONG INTERSTATE 17... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF LAKE PLEASANT MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE AREA AROUND LAKE PLEASANT...ROCK SPRINGS...AND NEW RIVER IS POSTED UNTIL 540 PM. VASQUEZ
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, Sep 6, 3:05 PM MST, 1 hour 34 minutes before
AZZ004-070100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 305 PM MST WED SEP 06 1995 AT 245 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF GLOBE SOUTHEAST TO NEAR COOLIDGE DAM. THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA WERE BECOMING QUITE STRONG...AND COULD RESULT IN BRIEF HEAVY RAION...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORM CELLS WERE DRIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH...BUT NEW CELLS WERE REFORMING IN THE ORIGINAL AREA. MOTORISTS IN THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY ON U.S 60 EAST OUT OF GLOBE... AND ALONG STATE ROUTE 77 SOUTH OF GLOBE...WILL NEED TO USE CAUTION. SUDDEN LOSS OF VISIBILITY COULD TAKE PLACE DUE TO HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME ROADWAY DIPS MAY FILL WITH WATER. PERFREMENT
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 3:07 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AZC015-070005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 307 PM MST WED SEP 6 1995 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARIZONA... AT 300 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOHAVE COUNTY. THE NEAREST STORMS TO KINGMAN WERE LOCATED ABOUT 5 TO 20 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY ON RADAR WAS LOCATED IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY IN A REMOTE AREA ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 15. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. MANY OF THE STORMS ACROSS ARIZONA TODAY HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL. THE STORMS ACROSS MOHAVE COUNTY MAY PRODUCE HAIL AS WELL...IN ADDITION TO GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. SOME FLOODING OF WASHES AND ROADWAYS IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MOHAVE COUNTY DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED SECTION OF ROADWAY...DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS IT. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KOCH
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 3:50 PM MST, 49 minutes before
AZZ001-004-008-010-070000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 350 PM MST WED SEP 06 1995 ...SCATTERED OCCASIONAL VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS A LARGE AREA OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL ARIZONA AT 345 PM... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 345 PM THE MOST NUMEROUS STORMS WERE CONCENTRATED IN THE MOHAVE COUNTY NEAR KINGMAN...AND ACROSS MOST OF YAVAPAI COUNTY ESPECIALLY BETWEEN PRESCOTT...WICKENBURG AND CORDES JUNCTION. SECONDARY AREAS OF LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN GILA AND EASTERN PINAL COUNTIES... MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THE HUMID ENVIRONMENT IN ARIZONA IS FAVORABLE FOR VERY STRONG STORMS PRODUCING HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL ARIZONA THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME VERY DANGEROUS. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. LISTEN FOR THE LATEST FORECAST AND UPDATES IN THE EVENT WEATHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...OR ADVISORIES ARE NEEDED. VASQUEZ WWUS30KGRB 0N)@
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 4:00 PM MST, 39 minutes before
AZZ001-004-008-010-070000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 350 PM MST WED SEP 06 1995 ...SCATTERED OCCASIONAL VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS A LARGE AREA OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL ARIZONA AT 345 PM... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 345 PM THE MOST NUMEROUS STORMS WERE CONCENTRATED IN THE MOHAVE COUNTY NEAR KINGMAN...AND ACROSS MOST OF YAVAPAI COUNTY ESPECIALLY BETWEEN PRESCOTT...WICKENBURG AND CORDES JUNCTION. SECONDARY AREAS OF LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN GILA AND EASTERN PINAL COUNTIES... MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THE HUMID ENVIRONMENT IN ARIZONA IS FAVORABLE FOR VERY STRONG STORMS PRODUCING HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL ARIZONA THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THEShE STORMS COULD BECOME VERY DANGEROUS. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. LISTEN FOR THE LATEST FORECAST AND UPDATES IN THE EVENT WEATHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...OR ADVISORIES ARE NEEDED. VASQUEZ
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 4:32 PM MST, 7 minutes before
AZZ004-008-070030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 433 PM MST WED SEP 6 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG INTERSTATE 17 NORTH OF PHOENIX... AT 425 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN YAVAPAI AND EXTREME NORTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG INTERSTATE 17 NEAR ROCK SPRINGS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF YAVAPAI COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST...HOWEVER NEW STORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP TO THE SOUTH OF THIS AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. MANY OF THE STORMS ACROSS ARIZONA HAVE PRODUCED HAIL TODAY...AND THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME AS WELL. IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS LAKE PLEASANT WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR BEFORE THIS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS MAY OCCUR. REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KOCH
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 4:33 PM MST, 6 minutes before
AZZ004-008-070030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 433 PM MST WED SEP 6 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG INTERSTATE 17 NORTH OF PHOENIX... AT 425 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN YAVAPAI AND EXTREME NORTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG INTERSTATE 17 NEAR ROCK SPRINGS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF YAVAPAI COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST...HOWEVER NEW STORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP TO THE SOUTH OF THIS AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. MANY OF THE STORMS ACROSS ARIZONA HAVE PRODUCED HAIL TODAY...AND THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME AS WELL. IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS LAKE PLEASANT WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR BEFORE THIS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS MAY OCCUR. REMEMBER...NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE ENOUGH TO FLOAT YOUR VEHICLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 1:52 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 113 min |
| Sep 6, 1:52 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 113 min |
| Sep 6, 2:05 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 4:39 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 61 min |
| Sep 6, 4:39 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 61 min |
| Sep 6, 4:39 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 61 min |
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.