Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 1995, 6:15 AM MST for Gila County, Graham County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 1995, 6:15 AM MST (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1995, 8:15 AM MST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gila County, AZ, Graham County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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
Local storm report, Sep 28, 4:00 AM MST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
400 AM MST THU SEP 28 1995
TIME(MST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM PICAHCO AZ WIND DAMAGE
09/27/95 PINAL TREE LIMBS DOWN.
0905 PM WAGONER AZ TORNADO
09/27/95 YAVAPAI ROOF TORN OFF A HOUSE.
1100 PM QUEEN CREEK AZ 82 MPH TSTM GUST
09/27/95 MARICOPA TREE BLOWN ONTO HOUSE.
0050 AM MAYER AZ 4.5 INCH HAIL
09/28/95 YAVAPAI TREES STRIPPED OF BRANCHES.
0050 AM MAYER AZ 1.5 INCH HAIL
09/28/95 YAVAPAI HAIL COVERED THE GROUND UP
TO 4 INCHES DEEP.
0124 AM CHANDLER AZ WIND DAMAGE
09/28/95 MARICOPA POWER LINES DOWN.
0220 AM AHWATUKEE AZ .75 INCH HAIL
09/28/95 MARICOPA
0225 AM SCOTTSDALE AZ WIND DAMAGE
09/28/95 SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE TREES
AND STREET SIGNS DOWN DUE
WINDS ESTIMATED IN EXCESS
OF 50 MPH.
WWUS35KMCILocal storm report, Sep 28, 4:01 AM MST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
400 AM MST THU SEP 28 1995
TIME(MST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM PICAHCO AZ WIND DAMAGE
09/27/95 PINAL TREE LIMBS DOWN.
0905 PM WAGONER AZ TORNADO
09/27/95 YAVAPAI ROOF TORN OFF A HOUSE.
1100 PM QUEEN CREEK AZ 82 MPH TSTM GUST
09/27/95 MARICOPA TREE BLOWN ONTO HOUSE.
0050 AM MAYER AZ 4.5 INCH HAIL
09/28/95 YAVAPAI TREES STRIPPED OF BRANCHES.
0050 AM MAYER AZ 1.5 INCH HAIL
09/28/95 YAVAPAI HAIL COVERED THE GROUND UP
TO 4 INCHES DEEP.
0124 AM CHANDLER AZ WIND DAMAGE
09/28/95 MARICOPA POWER LINES DOWN.
0220 AM AHWATUKEE AZ .75 INCH HAIL
09/28/95 MARICOPA
0225 AM SCOTTSDALE AZ WIND DAMAGE
09/28/95 SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE TREES
n AND STREET SIGNS DOWN DUE
WINDS ESTIMATED IN EXCESS
OF 50 MPH.The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 6:38 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 37 min |
| Sep 27, 7:37 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 27 min |
| Sep 27, 10:03 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 67 min |
| Sep 27, 10:33 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 62 min |
| Sep 27, 10:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 62 min |
| Sep 27, 11:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 57 min |
| Sep 27, 11:58 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 57 min |
| Sep 28, 12:45 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 75 min |
| Sep 28, 1:08 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 67 min |
| Sep 28, 1:42 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 78 min |
| Sep 28, 2:39 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 81 min |
| Sep 28, 2:39 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 81 min |
| Sep 28, 4:09 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 51 min |
| Sep 28, 6:15 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila, Pinal | 70 min |
| Sep 28, 7:25 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila, Graham | 50 min |
| Sep 28, 7:25 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Gila | 50 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.