Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 4:25 PM MST for Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1995, 4:25 PM MST (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1995, 4:55 PM MST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 192324
SVRPHX
AZC021-192355-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ
425 PM MST SAT AUG 19 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 455 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA
...EXTREME NORTHERN PINAL COUNTY
INCLUDING SUPERIOR AND THE IRON MOUNTAINS...
AT 420 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE
SUPERIOR AREA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE WEST-NORTHWEST AT 15
MILES PER HOUR.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH,
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL, DEADLY LIGHTNING, AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
BRLECKENRIDGEWhat 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 19, 1:14 PM MST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AZZ004-006-010-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 112 PM MST SAT AUG 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN GRAHAM COUNTY... AT 110 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF EASTERN ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF SAFFORD IN EXTREME EASTERN GRAHAM COUNTY. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. ALTHOUGH THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE CURRENTLY OVER MAINLY OPEN COUNTRY...NEW STORMS WILL DEVELOP AND AFFECT MUCH OF GRAHAM COUNTY BETWEEN 115 AND 330 PM. CITIES ALONG U.S. ROUTE 70...INCLUDING SAFFORD... THATCHER...PIMA...AND SOLOMON...SHOULD EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND WILL PRODUCING VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL. GREEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:30 PM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AZZ004-008-009-010-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 230 PM MST SAT AUG 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN ARIZONA... AT 220 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ARIZONA. STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER EXTREME EAST PINAL AND WESTERN GRAHAM COUNTIES...BUT ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BONITA IN SOUTHERN GRAHAM COUNTY. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. BOATERS ON SAN CARLOS LAKE...MOTORISTS ON ARIZONA ROUTE 77 BETWEEN MAMMOTH AND GLOBE AND ON U.S. ROUTE 70 BETWEEN BYLAS AND GLOBE...AND PERSONS IN BONITA AND FORT GRANT SHOULD EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING BETWEEN 230 AND 330 PM. GREEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:31 PM MST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
AZZ004-008-009-010-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 230 PM MST SAT AUG 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN ARIZONA... AT 220 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ARIZONA. STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER EXTREME EAST PINAL AND WESTERN GRAHAM COUNTIES...BUT ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BONITA IN SOUTHERN GRAHAM COUNTY. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR. BOATERS ON SAN CARLOS LAKE...MOTORISTS ON ARIZONA ROUTE 77 BETWEEN MAMMOTH AND GLOBE AND ON U.S. ROUTE 70 BETWEEN BYLAS AND GLOBE...AND PERSONS IN BONITA AND FORT GRANT SHOULD EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING BETWEEN 230 AND 330 PM. GREEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:42 PM MST, 43 minutes before
AZZ004-008-009-010-192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 345 PM MST SAT AUG 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF EASTERN ARIZONA... AT 340 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN ARIZONA. MOST STORMS WERE AFFECTING EASTERN PINAL...WESTERN GRAHAM...AND EXTREME SOUTHERN GILA COUNTIES. STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF SUPERIOR TO 10 MILES WEST OF WINKLEMAN TO JUST EAST OF ORACLE JUNCTION. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE IN THE GLOBE-MIAMI AREA. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MILES PER HOUR. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS BEEN PRODUCED BY SEVERAL STORMS BETWEEN 230 AND 330 PM. ACCORDING TO DOPPLER RADAR...ONE STORM PRODUCED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE HAYES MOUNTAINS NORTHWEST OF COOLIDGE DAM IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST GILA COUNTY...AND ANOTHER STORM PRODUCED NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN A SMALL AREA OF THE TORTILLA MOUNTAINS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINKELMAN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS PINAL...GILA...AND GRAHAM COUNTIES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BRECKENRIDGE/GREEN
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:45 PM MST, 40 minutes before
AZZ004-008-009-010-192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 345 PM MST SAT AUG 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF EASTERN ARIZONA... AT 340 PM PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN ARIZONA. MOST STORMS WERE AFFECTING EASTERN PINAL...WESTERN GRAHAM...AND EXTREME SOUTHERN GILA COUNTIES. STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF SUPERIOR TO 10 MILES WEST OF WINKLEMAN TO JUST EAST OF ORACLE JUNCTION. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE IN THE GLOBE-MIAMI AREA. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MILES PER HOUR. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS BEEN PRODUCED BY SEVERAL STORMS BETWEEN 230 AND 330 PM. ACCORDING TO DOPPLER RADAR...ONE STORM PRODUCED UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE HAYES MOUNTAINS NORTHWEST OF COOLIDGE DAM IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST GILA COUNTY...AND ANOTHER STORM PRODUCED NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN A SMALL AREA OF THE TORTILLA MOUNTAINS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINKELMAN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS PINAL...GILA...AND GRAHAM COUNTIES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BRECKENRIDGE/GREEN
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.