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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Phoenix, AZ

February 14, 1995Gila County, Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 1995, 9:00 PM MST for Gila County, Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 1995, 9:00 PM MST (04:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 1995, 12:00 AM MST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gila County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1995-02-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1995-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Feb 14, 3:17 PM MST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 14, 5:55 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRGila, Maricopa, Yavapai3 hr
Feb 14, 9:00 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRYavapai3 hr
Feb 14, 11:45 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRGila, Maricopa, Yavapai9 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.