Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Phoenix, AZ

Issued

Feb 14, 1995, 5:55 PM MST (00:55 UTC)

Expired

Feb 14, 1995, 9:00 PM MST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Phoenix, AZ

Area

Whole counties

Counties Gila County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KPHX 150101
FFWPHX
AZC007-013-005-025-150400-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
555 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...EXTREME SOUTHERN COCONINO COUNTY
  ...ALL OF YAVAPAI COUNTY
     INCLUDING SEDONA...MUNDS PARK...PRESCOTT...CAMP VERDE...ASH FORK
AND COTTONWOOD

IN EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...NORTHWESTERN GILA COUNTY
     INCLUDING PAYSON...PINE...AND STRAWBERRY

IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...EXTREME NORTHERN MARICOPA COUNTY
     INCLUDING NEW RIVER AND WICKENBURG

AT 545 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A 35 MILE WIDE BAND
OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN...ORIENTED WEST-TO-EAST...EXTENDING FROM
EXTREME EASTERN LA PAZ COUNTY ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL YAVAPAI COUNTY
TO NORTHWEST GILA COUNTY.  

NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED...WITH
THREE-HOUR MAXIMUM RADAR ESTIMATES OF NEARLY ONE-HALF INCH OBSERVED OVER
A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL YAVAPAI COUNTY BETWEEN 2 AND 5
PM MST.  BETWEEN 250 AND 550 PM MT. UNION...LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF
PRESCOTT...HAS RECEIVED 0.94" OF AN INCH...WHILE CROWN KING HAS RECEIVED
0.43 OF AN INCH.

STRONG LOW-LEVEL SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS CONTINUE TO TRANSPORT MOISTURE-
RICH AIR INTO ARIZONA...AND THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN THE CENTRAL BASINS
SERVES TO LIFT THE AIR AND MAINTAIN THE RAINFALL.  A STRONG UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE APPROACHING ARIZONA IS PROVIDING THE DYNAMIC SUPPORT FOR
THIS EVENT...AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING.

OAK CREEK AT SEDONA CONTINUES TO RISE IN RESPONSE TO CONTINUED RAINFALL
AND SNOWMELT...AND MANY OTHER STREAMS ARE RUNNING AT OR ABOVE BANKFULL.  
  
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN
AUTOMOBILES.  BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO
RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER.

GREEN

In the hours before

AZZ007-142215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YUMA AZ
1213 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN THE YUMA AREA...

SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE BEEN BLOWING AT 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO MORE
THAN 40 MPH IN THE EXTREME LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY LATE THIS
MORNING. THE HIGHEST GUSTS AT THE AIRPORT IN YUMA HAVE BEEN 43 MPH.

ALTHOUGH MOISTURE LEVELS ARE HIGH IN THE AREA...WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE
CAN STILL CAUSE BLOWING DUST. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD
EXERCISE CAUTION ON HIGHWAYS IN THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY ON INTERSTATE 8
WHERE THESE WINDS ARE ACTUALLY CROSSWINDS.

GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED IN FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

FAUSETT

AZZ007-142215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YUMA AZ
1213 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

...STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN THE YUMA AREA...

SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE BEEN BLOWING AT 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO MORE
THAN 40 MPH IN THE EXTREME LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY LATE THIS
MORNING. THE HIGHEST GUSTS AT THE AIRPORT IN YUMA HAVE BEEN 43 MPH.

ALTHOUGH MOISTURE LEVELS ARE HIGH IN THE AREA...WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE
CAN STILL CAUSE BLOWING DUST. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD
EXERCISE CAUTION ON HIGHWAYS IN THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY ON INTERSTATE 8
WHERE THESE WINDS ARE ACTUALLY CROSSWINDS.

GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED IN FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

FAUSETT

LOCAL STORM REPORT...LATE REPORT ... YESTERDAY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
315 MST TUE FEB 14 1995

                      TIME   PATH   # PERSONS  EST. DAMAGE CHARACTER
PLACE           DATE  (MST)  L  W   KILL  INJ  PROP CROPS  OF STORM

...MONDAY AFTERNOON TORNADO...

EAST MESA       13    1508-  .5  10    0   0  $300K       TORNADO(F0)
(20ESE PHX)           1513
                NWS SURVEY TEAM CONCLUDED WEAK TORNADO AT THE GENERAL
                MOTORS DESERT PROVING GROUNDS. A ROOF WAS DAMAGED AND
                ABOUT 20 VEHICLES WERE DAMAGED. TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST
                AND LASTED ABOUT 5 MINS.

SIPPLE

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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.