Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 3:55 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1995, 3:55 PM MST (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1995, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pima County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 282256 RRA SVRTUS AZC019-290000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 355 PM MST FRI JUL 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...SOUTHERN PIMA COUNTY AT 355 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF SASABE. THIS STORM IS MOVING WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE SAN MIGUEL AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. 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 DE ADLY 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 28, 3:09 PM MST, 46 minutes before
AZZ009-010-282315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 309 PM MST FRI JUL 28 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... AT 305 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN COCHISE COUNTY SOUTH OF PEARCE AND JUST EAST OF BISBEE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN MEXICO JUST SOUTH OF SASABE IN PIMA COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS LIVING NEAR THE TOWN OF SASABE SHOULD BE ALERT SINCE THE THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER MAY MOVE INTO THE SASABE AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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.