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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 19, 1995Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 6:15 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 75 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 6:15 PM MST (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 7:30 PM MST
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Maricopa County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1995-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 777 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1995-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
777 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 19, 2:31 PM MST, 3 hours 44 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, 2 hours 33 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, 2 hours 30 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
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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.