Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 1995, 2:34 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1995, 2:34 PM MST (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1995, 4:10 PM MST
- In force
- 96 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 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPHX 092150 RRA
FFWPHX
AZC021-092310-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
234 PM MST SAT SEP 09 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 410 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA
...SOUTHWESTERN PINAL COUNTY...NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE TOHONO
O'ODHAM RESERVATION 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRANDE
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN STATIONARY AROUND THE TABLE
TOP WILDERNESS AREA ON THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE TOHONO O'ODHAM
INDIAN RESERVATION 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CASA GRANDE. RADAR RAINFALL
ESTIMATES HAVE APPROACHED 5 INCHES IN THE 3 HOUR PERIOD ENDING AT
240 PM.
ALTHOUGH ALL THE RAINFALL HAS FALLEN OVER THE REMOTE DESERTS AND
MOUNTAINS...THE AREA DRAINS EAST TOWARD THE INDIAN RESERVATION
HIGHWAY NUMBER 42 FROM STANFIELD TO KOHATK. MANY OF THE DESERTS
WASHES ARE LIKELY FILLED TO CAPACITY WITH TORRENTS RUNNING ACROSS
HIGHWAY 42.
MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION. REDUCE SPEED TO
ANTICIPATE FLOODED ROADS.
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE NORTHERN PART OF THE TOHONO O'ODHAM
INDIAN RESERVATION IS POSTED UNTIL 410 PM.
DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.
VASQUEZWhat 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 9, 11:39 AM MST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AZZ010-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 1139 AM MST SAT SEP 09 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DVEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY... AT 1130 AM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY. THEY WERE IN THE AREA FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF BYLAS...SOUTHWARD INTO THE ARAVAIPA VALLEY. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE PRODUCING IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH OF RAINFALL. PERSON IN THE FORT GRANT AND BONITA AREAS AS WELL AS THE AREA BETWEEN BYLAS AND SAFFORD ALONG HIGHWAY 70 MAY EXPERIENCE SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. STURM
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 11:40 AM MST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
AZZ010-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 1139 AM MST SAT SEP 09 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DVEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY... AT 1130 AM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST GRAHAM COUNTY. THEY WERE IN THE AREA FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF BYLAS...SOUTHWARD INTO THE ARAVAIPA VALLEY. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE PRODUCING IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH OF RAINFALL. PERSON IN THE FORT GRANT AND BONITA AREAS AS WELL AS THE AREA BETWEEN BYLAS AND SAFFORD ALONG HIGHWAY 70 MAY EXPERIENCE SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. STURM
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 1:25 PM MST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
AZZ008-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 125 PM MST SAT SEP 09 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WESTERN PINAL COUNTY... AT 115 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND ESTIMATED RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH IN WESTERN PINAL COUNTY. THE AREAS OF STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR INTERSTATE 8 SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF STANFIELD...AND WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MPH. MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 8 FROM THE MARICOPA-PINAL COUNTY BORDER EASTWARD TO NEAR INTERSTATE 10...ALONG STATE ROUTE 84 FROM STANFIELD TO NEAR CASA GRANDE...AND ALONG STATE ROUTE 347 FROM NEAR STANFIELD TO THE GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION...SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN...WATER ON ROADWAYS...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE BLOWING DUST UNTIL 3 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. BERKOVITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 5:06 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 34 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.