Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1995, 6:25 PM MST for Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1995, 6:25 PM MST (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1995, 7:15 PM MST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maricopa County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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 00:00Z, 1.4 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
- 373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2124 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHX 100130 RRA SVRPHX AZC013-100230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 625 PM MST SAT SEP 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX AZ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA ...SOUTHWESTERN MARICOPA COUNTY...GILA BEND AND VICINITY VERY STRONG POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING GILA BEND FROM THE SOUTHWEST. STORM MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE ARE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS TO AVOID FLYING DEBRIS. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON INTERSTATE 8 NEAR GILA BEND ARE VULNERABLE TO DANGEROUS CROSS WINDS. VASQUEZ
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, Sep 9, 1:25 PM MST, 5 hours before
AZZ008-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 125 PM MST SAT SEP 09 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WESTERN PINAL COUNTY... AT 115 PM MST...PHOENIX DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND ESTIMATED RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH IN WESTERN PINAL COUNTY. THE AREAS OF STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR INTERSTATE 8 SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF STANFIELD...AND WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MPH. MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 8 FROM THE MARICOPA-PINAL COUNTY BORDER EASTWARD TO NEAR INTERSTATE 10...ALONG STATE ROUTE 84 FROM STANFIELD TO NEAR CASA GRANDE...AND ALONG STATE ROUTE 347 FROM NEAR STANFIELD TO THE GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION...SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAIN...WATER ON ROADWAYS...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE BLOWING DUST UNTIL 3 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. BERKOVITZ
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 4:28 PM MST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
AZZ008-009-100015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 428 PM MST SAT SEP 09 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF PINAL COUNTY FROM ORACLE JUNCTION TO MAMMOTH AND HAYDEN... THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 425 PM WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN PINAL COUNTY FROM ORACLE JUNCTION ALONG STATE ROUTE 77 TO WINKELMAN AND HAYDEN. THESE STORMS WERE VERY STRONG AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. VASQUEZ
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 4:35 PM MST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
AZZ008-009-100015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 428 PM MST SAT SEP 09 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF PINAL COUNTY FROM ORACLE JUNCTION TO MAMMOTH AND HAYDEN... THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 425 PM WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN PINAL COUNTY FROM ORACLE JUNCTION ALONG STATE ROUTE 77 TO WINKELMAN AND HAYDEN. THESE STORMS WERE VERY STRONG AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. VASQUEZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 5:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 41 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.