Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Phoenix, AZ
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.
- 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
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 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
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:55 PM MST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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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.