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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Phoenix, AZ

February 14, 1995Gila County, Maricopa County, Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 1995, 11:45 PM MST for Gila County, Maricopa County, Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 1995, 11:45 PM MST (06:45 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 1995, 9:00 AM MST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

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

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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, Winslow (Autob), AZ at 00:00Z on 1995-02-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Winslow (Autob), AZ at 00:00Z on 1995-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 269 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPHX 150641
FFWPHX
AZC005-007-013-025-151520-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD AND FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
1145 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

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

IN NORTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...ENTIRE YAVAPAI COUNTY INCLUDING PRESCOTT...CAMP VERDE AND
     TOWNS ALONG THE VERDE RIVER

  ...SOUTHERN COCONINO COUNTY
     INCLUDING FLAGSTAFF AND LOWER OAK CREEK    

IN EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...NORTHERN GILA COUNTY
     INCLUDING PINE...PAYSON AND TONTO CREEK

IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA

  ...NORTHWESTERN MARICOPA COUNTY
     INCLUDING AGUILA AND WICKENBURG AND ALONG THE HASSAYAMPA RIVER

PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR AND NUMEROUS REPORTS FROM CENTRAL ARIZONA
INDICATED CONTINUED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA WITH
VARIOUS RIVERS...CREEKS AND STREAMS NEAR OR ABOVE BANKFULL. 

AT 1115 PM THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE ALONG A 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM NEAR
WENDEN TO YARNELL TO PRESCOTT TO CAMP VERDE. THIS IS THE SAME AREA THAT
RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS EARLIER IN THE EVENING. A SPOTTER IN PRESCOTT
REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH AN ADDITIONAL  1.25 INCHES SINCE 5 PM. BANNING
CREEK WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS.  A REPORT FROM WICKENBURG INDICATED SOLS
WASH WAS OUT OF ITS BANKS AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS. 

SIGNIFICANT FLOWS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE VERDE...HASSAYAMPA...AGUA
FRIA AND LOWER OAK CREEK RIVERS. SOME LOW LAND FLOODING HAS ALSO BEEN
REPORTED ALONG THESE RIVERS. MINOR FLOODING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED LATER
TONIGHT ALONG THE TONTO CREEK.

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 DRIVE AROUND POLICE BARRICADES.

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 WarningPSRGila, Maricopa3 hr
Feb 14, 9:00 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningPSRYavapai3 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.