Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Phoenix, AZ
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.
- 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
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.
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, 9:00 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.