Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jan 25, 1995, 8:19 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 100 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 1995, 8:19 PM MST (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 1995, 9:59 PM MST
- In force
- 100 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Cruz County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1295 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUS 260321 FFWTUS AZC023-260515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 819 PM MST WED JAN 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...SOUTHERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY A REPORT HAS BEEN RECEIVED OF FLOODING ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF NOGALES AND 2 MILES NORTH OF THE MEXICAN BORDER. RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO POSSIBLE RISING WATER AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY SHOULD FLOODING OCCUR. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. NWS/BARTOLOME &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Jan 25, 5:04 PM MST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AZZ009-010-260215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 504 PM MST WED JAN 25 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHERN ARIZONA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 5 PM WEATHER RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PIMA COUNTY...SANTA CRUZ COUNTY...AND COCHISE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM AROUND DOUGLAS TO SELLS TO SANTA ROSA...AND WERE ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH AND WEST OF THE TUCSON AREA. LOOK FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...TO MOVE INTO THE TUCSON AREA BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM. EXPECT A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN WITH THESE SHOWERS...WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING OF WASHES...SMALL STREAMS... RIVERS...AND DRAINAGES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT...BEFORE TAPERING OFF LATE. DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THESE SHOWERS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND WESTERN ARIZONA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. A FEW CITIES IN THE WATCH ARE TUCSON...NOGALES...NOGALES...DOUGLAS...AND SIERRA VISTA. MOTORISTS AND PEOPLE WITH OUTDOOR INTERESTS ARE URGE TO BE CAREFUL. ROADS MAY BECOME SLICK OR FLOODED...AND VISIBILITY POOR. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY...MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD ALSO SEEK APPROPRIATE SHELTER FROM THE LIGHTNING. DRB
Special weather statement, Jan 25, 5:07 PM MST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
AZZ009-010-260215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 504 PM MST WED JAN 25 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHERN ARIZONA... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 5 PM WEATHER RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PIMA COUNTY...SANTA CRUZ COUNTY...AND COCHISE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM AROUND DOUGLAS TO SELLS TO SANTA ROSA...AND WERE ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH AND WEST OF THE TUCSON AREA. LOOK FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS...TO MOVE INTO THE TUCSON AREA BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM. EXPECT A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN WITH THESE SHOWERS...WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING OF WASHES...SMALL STREAMS... RIVERS...AND DRAINAGES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT...BEFORE TAPERING OFF LATE. DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THESE SHOWERS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND WESTERN ARIZONA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. A FEW CITIES IN THE WATCH ARE TUCSON...NOGALES...NOGALES...DOUGLAS...AND SIERRA VISTA. MOTORISTS AND PEOPLE WITH OUTDOOR INTERESTS ARE URGE TO BE CAREFUL. ROADS MAY BECOME SLICK OR FLOODED...AND VISIBILITY POOR. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY...MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD ALSO SEEK APPROPRIATE SHELTER FROM THE LIGHTNING. DRB
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.