Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1995, 2:20 PM MST for Graham County, Arizona. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1995, 2:20 PM MST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1995, 2:45 PM MST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 8:25 PM MST, 17 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 8:25 PM MST, 17 hours 55 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 830 PM MST WED AUG 9 1995 ANOTHER DUD TODAY AS FAR AS THE MONSOON IS CONCERNED. A SPOTTER IN GREEN VALLEY HOWEVER RECEIVED 0.75 FROM A THUNDERSHOWER EARLIER THIS EVENING AND A AUTOMATED GAGE NEAR ORO VALLEY GOT .39. JUST NOT ANYTHING IN TUS. OUR 88D IS STILL DOWN. PHX 88D AND LIGHTNIN DETECTION EQUIPMENT SHOWING A FEW TSTMS IN EXTREME WESTERN PIMA COUNTY OTHERWISE NOTHING GOING ON IN OUR AREA. EVE ETA STILL INDICATED SELY FLOW INTO AREA WITH DECENT AMOUNT OF MSTR. HOWEVER HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS AND NOT MUCH HAS HAPPENED. LOTS OF MSTR IN SRN AND CNTRL MEX AND TROPICAL STROM FLOSSIE JUST OFF CNTRL MEX CST. MAYBE THIS MSTR CAN WORK ITS WAY INTO AZ. WE CAN ONLY HOPE. FORECASTS FOR TOMORROW MIGHT HAVE TOO MUCH WEATHER AND TEMPS A LTL LOW BUT IF ITS SCALED BACK IT WILL SURE HIT US THEN. TUS 1232 COLLINS .TWC...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:17 PM MST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
AZZ009-112117- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 117 PM MST FRI AUG 10 1995 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS COCHISE AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES... AT 115 PM MST..TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS COCHISE AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES. THESE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY... NORTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY AND JUST WEST OF THE CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS IN EASTERN COCHISE COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS IS GENERALLY TO THE WEST AROUND 5 TO 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SOUTHEAST ARIZONA WILL CONTINUE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. GLUECK
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:20 PM MST, 1 hour before
AZZ009-112117- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 120 PM MST FRI AUG 10 1995 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS COCHISE AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES... AT 115 PM MST..TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS COCHISE AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES. THESE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY... NORTHWEST COCHISE COUNTY AND JUST WEST OF THE CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS IN EASTERN COCHISE COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS IS GENERALLY TO THE WEST AROUND 5 TO 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SOUTHEAST ARIZONA WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. GLUECK
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:10 PM MST, 10 minutes before
AZZ009-010-112210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 210 PM MST FRI AUG 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST SANTA CRUZ COUNTY NEAR SONOITA... AT 205 PM MST..TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN PROGRESS NEAR SONOITA. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS WEST NORTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM IS IN PROGRESS NORTH OF PATAGONIA. RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM THE RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES SOUTH OF SONOITA. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY LEAD TO RAPID RISES IN SMALL STREAMS AND WASHES. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WILL BRING IT INTO SOUTHEAST PIMA COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF COCHISE COUNTY WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENSON AND 15 MILES EAST OF TOMBSTONE. GLUECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 1:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 2:18 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 2:18 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Santa Cruz | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 3:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 44 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.