Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Mar 6, 1995, 2:00 AM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1995, 2:00 AM MST (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 5:00 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, 9.0 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
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 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 060902 FFWPHX AZC005-025-061200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 2 AM MST MON MAR 06 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA ...EXTREME SOUTHERN COCONINO COUNTY ...EXTREME NORTHEASTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY THIS INCLUDES OAK CREEK CANYON AND SEDONA. AT 150 AM...THE SEDONA FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT OAK CREEK HAD RISEN 1 FOOT SINCE 1 AM AT INDIAN GARDENS. THE WATER LEVEL AT TLAQUEPAQUE HAD REACHED 12 FEET AND WAS CONTINUING TO RISE. SOME NEARBY AREAS WERE BEING EVACUATED. PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE RAIN COVERING MUCH OF CENTRAL ARIZONA...AND PERIODS OF RAIN...LOCALLY HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. GREEN
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
Special weather statement, Mar 5, 9:38 PM MST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
AZZALL-061000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 937 PM MST SUN MAR 5 1995 ...SHOWERS INCREASING OVER ARIZONA... A PACIFIC STORM MOVING THROUGH CALIFORNIA INTO ARIZONA TONIGHT HAS INCREASED SHOWERS OVER MAINLY THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE THIS EVENING....AND BY 9 PM SHOWERS HAVE MOVED INTO THE TUCSON AREA. RAINFALL REPORTS FROM AUTOMATIC GAGES AROUND THE PHOENIX / SALT RIVER VALLEY REGION HAS SHOWN AMOUNTS RANGING FROM A TRACE TO .15 OF AN INCH HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 9 AM AND 9 PM. HEAVIER AMOUNTS HAVE FALLEN DURING THAT SAME TIME FRAME BETWEEN PHOENIX AND PRESCOTT. AUTOMATIC GAGES REPORTED THE CROWN KING AREA RECEIVED .94 ...SUNSET POINT ON INTERSTATE 17 RECEIVED .39 ...AND MT. UNION JUST SOUTH OF PRESCOTT HAS RECEIVED 1.42 INCHES OF RAIN. AS OF 9 PM PHOENIX AIRPORT HAD ONLY RECEIVED A TRACE OF RAIN. AS OF 9 PM RAIN...OCCASSIONALLY MODERATE...WAS CONTINUING TO FALL AT BOTH FLAGSTAFF AND GRAND CANYON. BETWEEN 8 AND 9 PM... A TENTH OF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL AT THE GRAND CANYON SOUTH RIM. THIS BRINGS THEIR 24 HOUR RAIN TOTAL CLOSE TO ONE INCH. AS OF 9 PM NUMEROUS RAIN SHOWERS WERE CONTINUING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WITH THIS AREA MOVING EASTWARD INTO ARIZONA. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND SPREAD EASTWARD OVER ALL OF ARIZONA TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE SHOWERS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY. FROM THE RAIN THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN PLUS THE RAIN THAT WILL STILL COME TONIGHT...MANY WASHES AND SMALL STREAMS WILL BE RUNNING. ROADS WILL BE WET...SOME MAY HAVE STANDING WATER ON THEM...SO MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION. THE SHOWERS WILL BE DECREASING IN THE NORTHWEST TOWARD MORNING WITH THE DECREASE SPREADING OVER THE STA\TE DURING THE DAY. STURM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:06 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Coconino, Yavapai | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:15 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Gila, Yavapai | 6 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:15 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 6 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.