Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 4:07 PM MST for Cochise County, Arizona. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1995, 4:07 PM MST (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1995, 5:15 PM MST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cochise County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTUS 162307 RRA SVRTUS AZC003-170015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 407 PM MST SUN JUL 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA ...SOUTHWESTERN COCHISE COUNTY...INCLUDING SIERRA VISTA... AT 405 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIERRA VISTA IN SOUTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAST TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SIERRA VISTA AND FT HUACHUCA ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM AND SHOULD BE AFFECTED BY 425 PM MST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Jul 16, 11:40 AM MST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
AZZ009-010-007-161945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 1140 AM MST SUN JUL 16 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... THUNDERSTORMS ARE STARTING A LITTLE EARLIER TODAY COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. AT 1135 AM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER SOME OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NOTED ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREATERVILLE NEAR HWY 83 IN SOUTHEAST PIMA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 8 MPH. FOR NOW...MANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE RELATIVELY SHORT LIFESPANS AND WILL GENERATE LITTLE IN THE WAY OF VERY HEAVY SUSTAINED RAINFALL. BY THIS AFTERNOON...SOME THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY GENERATE SUSTAINED HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE TV OR RADIO STATION FOR UPDATES. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 11:43 AM MST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
AZZ009-010-007-161945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 1140 AM MST SUN JUL 16 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... THUNDERSTORMS ARE STARTING A LITTLE EARLIER TODAY COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. AT 1135 AM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER SOME OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NOTED ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREATERVILLE NEAR HWY 83 IN SOUTHEAST PIMA COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 8 MPH. FOR NOW...MANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE RELATIVELY SHORT LIFESPANS AND WILL GENERATE LITTLE IN THE WAY OF VERY HEAVY SUSTAINED RAINFALL. BY THIS AFTERNOON...SOME THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY GENERATE SUSTAINED HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE TV OR RADIO STATION FOR UPDATES. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:51 PM MST, 2 hours 16 minutes before
AZZ009-007-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 152 PM MST SUN JUL 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM EAST OF WHY IN PIMA COUNTY... AT 147 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF WHY NEAR HWY 86 IN WESTERN PIMA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 8 MPH. THIS STORM APPEARED CAPABLE OF GENERATING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHDTNING. VISIBILITIES NEAR THIS AREA OF HWY 86 MAY BE REDUCED DUE TO BLOWING DUST AT THE PERIMETER OF THE STORM AND HEAVY RAIN WITHIN THE STORM. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:52 PM MST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AZZ009-007-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 152 PM MST SUN JUL 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM EAST OF WHY IN PIMA COUNTY... AT 147 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF WHY NEAR HWY 86 IN WESTERN PIMA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 8 MPH. THIS STORM APPEARED CAPABLE OF GENERATING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. VISIBILITIES NEAR THIS AREA OF HWY 86 MAY BE REDUCED DUE TO BLOWING DUST AT THE PERIMETER OF THE STORM AND HEAVY RAIN WITHIN THE STORM. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:06 PM MST, 2 hours 1 minute before
AZZ009-010-007-162215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 206 PM MST SUN JUL 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN COCHISE COUNTY... AT 200 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OFF OF THE WHETSTONE MOUNTAINS TOWARD HWY 90...ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF HUACHUCA CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH WITH THIS STORM EXPECTED TO AFFECT THAT AREA OF HWY 90 BY 215 PM. ELSEWHERE...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF WHY IN WESTERN PIMA COUNTY WAS MOVING AWAY FROM HWY 86 TO THE NORTH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CONTINUED THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHCENTRAL ARIZONA. SOME OF THIS AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS STORMS WILL GENERATE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE TV OR RADIO STATION FOR UPDATES. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:56 PM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AZZ009-010-007-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 256 PM MST SUN JUL 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR VENTANA IN FAR NORTH CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY... AT 250 PM MST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF VENTANA NEAR THE PIMA-MARICOPA COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE TO NEAR THE AREA WHERE THE PIMA...MARICOPA AND PINAL COUNTY LINES MEET BY 315 PM. ELSEWHERE...IN ADDITION TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHCENTRAL ARIZONA...SOME THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING THE COCHISE AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTY LINES FROM OLD MEXICO. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT BORDER AREAS BY 330 PM WITH MOVEMENT TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. MEYER
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.