Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 1995, 9:00 PM MST for Yavapai 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
County Yavapai County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
SIPPLEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 5:55 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila, Maricopa, Yavapai | 3 hr |
| Feb 14, 9:00 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila, Maricopa | 3 hr |
| Feb 14, 11:45 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila, Maricopa, Yavapai | 9 hr |
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.