Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 4:26 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 4:26 PM MST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 5:10 PM MST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gila County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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, Aug 11, 1:35 PM MST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AZZ010-112135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 135 PM MST FRI AUG 11 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN GRAHAM COUNTY NEAR MT. GRAHAM... AT 1:15 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IN THE MT. GRAHAM AREA IN THE CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHOWN LITTLE MOVEMENT. CAMPERS AND HIKERS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. BERKOVITZ
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 2:56 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AZZ004-006-010-008-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 256 PM MST FRI AUG 11 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARIZONA... AT 250 PM MST WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM COTTONWOOD AND CORDES JUNCTION EAST TO NEAR YOUNG AND CLIFTON. THIS ACTIVITY WAS INCREASING IN INTENSITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. AT 240 PM MST A STORM SPOTTER IN MAYER REPORTED .55 INCH OF RAINFALL WITHIN ONE HOUR ALONG WITH MINOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY HAIL ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DRUMMOND
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 2:58 PM MST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
AZZ004-006-010-008-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 256 PM MST FRI AUG 11 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARIZONA... AT 250 PM MST WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM COTTONWOOD AND CORDES JUNCTION EAST TO NEAR YOUNG AND CLIFTON. THIS ACTIVITY WAS INCREASING IN INTENSITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. AT 240 PM MST A STORM SPOTTER IN MAYER REPORTED .55 INCH OF RAINFALL WITHIN ONE HOUR ALONG WITH MINOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY HAIL ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE REM AINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DRUMMOND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:14 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Pinal | 71 min |
| Aug 10, 6:14 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 71 min |
| Aug 11, 12:30 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 53 min |
| Aug 11, 2:10 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Graham | 85 min |
| Aug 11, 3:03 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 42 min |
| Aug 11, 3:44 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Pinal | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 3:46 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Graham | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1995Every severe thunderstorm 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.