Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 8:00 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1995, 8:00 PM MST (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1995, 8:45 PM MST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maricopa County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 severe thunderstorm 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, Jul 11, 3:25 PM MST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
AZZ004-007-008-122330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 325 PM MST TUE JUL 11 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL DESERTS AND CENTRAL BASINS OF ARIZONA... AT 310 PM...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN YAVAPAI COUNTY EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF CHINO VALLEY TO AROUND PRESCOTT. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH AT 10 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. PERSONS IN THE CHINO VALLEY AND PRESCOTT AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL DESERTS IN SOUTHERN MARICOPA AND SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GILA BEND AND WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT ABOUT 20 MILES PER HOUR. THESE STORMS SHOULD REACH THE GILA BEND AREA WITHIN THE HOUR. MOTORISTS ON INTERSTATE 8 BETWEEN CASA GRANDE AND GILA BEND MAY EXPERIENCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BLOWING DUST WHICH COULD REDUCE VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. WOJCIK
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:30 PM MST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
AZZ004-007-008-120130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 430 PM MST TUE JUL 11 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL BASINS AND SOUTH CENTRAL DESERTS OF ARIZONA... AT 420 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN YAVAPAI COUNTY FROM NORTH OF CHINO VALLEY TO SOUTH OF PRESCOTT. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA...AND HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AT 355 PM MST...A SPOTTER IN CHINO VALLEY REPORTED A WIND GUST OF 36 MPH AND .51 INCHES OF RAIN SO FAR WITH ONE THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS NORTH AT 10 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST MARICOPA AND SOUTHERN PINAL COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CASA GRANDE AND JUST EAST OF PICACHO PEAK. MOTORISTS ON INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN PICACHO PEAK AND CASA GRANDE CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH BLOWING DUST WHICH MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES CAUSING HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. THIS THUDERSTORM HAS THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WOJCIK
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:33 PM MST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
AZZ004-007-008-120130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 430 PM MST TUE JUL 11 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL BASINS AND SOUTH CENTRAL DESERTS OF ARIZONA... AT 420 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN YAVAPAI COUNTY FROM NORTH OF CHINO VALLEY TO SOUTH OF PRESCOTT. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA...AND HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. AT 355 PM MST...A SPOTTER IN CHINO VALLEY REPORTED A WIND GUST OF 36 MPH AND .51 INCHES OF RAIN SO FAR WITH ONE THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS NORTH AT 10 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST MARICOPA AND SOUTHERN PINAL COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CASA GRANDE AND JUST EAST OF PICACHO PEAK. MOTORISTS ON INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN PICACHO PEAK AND CASA GRANDE CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH BLOWING DUST WHICH MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES CAUSING HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. THIS THUDERSTORM HAS THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WOJCIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 5:20 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Yavapai | 95 min |
| Jul 11, 5:44 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 6:02 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 43 min |
| Jul 11, 8:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 40 min |
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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.