Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 1995, 3:31 AM MST for Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 1995, 3:31 AM MST (10:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1995, 5:30 AM MST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pima County, AZ, Santa Cruz County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 923 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 KTUS 281033 FFWTUS AZC019-023-281230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 331 AM MST THU SEP 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...EASTERN PIMA COUNTY...SANTA CRUZ COUNTY AT 330 AM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...ACROSS EASTERN PIMA COUNTY AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. NEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN WESTERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY AND NORTHERN MEXICO AND WILL MOVE INTO THE TUCSON METRO AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. RAINFALL OF OVER ONE AND A HALF INCHES HAS FALLEN IN EASTERN PIMA COUNTY AND AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL ACROSS THE AREA EARLY THIS MORNING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO REC OGNIZE 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 5:10 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Pima | 65 min |
| Sep 27, 11:41 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 49 min |
| Sep 28, 12:01 AM MST | Tornado Warning | TWC | Pima | 29 min |
| Sep 28, 12:17 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 43 min |
| Sep 28, 12:32 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 43 min |
| Sep 28, 12:52 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 68 min |
| Sep 28, 1:00 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 60 min |
| Sep 28, 1:31 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Pima | 119 min |
| Sep 28, 1:55 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 50 min |
| Sep 28, 2:44 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 46 min |
| Sep 28, 4:41 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Pima | 64 min |
| Sep 28, 6:15 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 2 hr |
| Sep 28, 7:25 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Graham | 50 min |
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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.