Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 2:10 PM MST for Graham County, Arizona. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 2:10 PM MST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 3:35 PM MST
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:17 PM MST, 53 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 CO4NTINUE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. GLUECK
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:22 PM MST, 48 minutes 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. SOUTHEAST6 ARIZONA WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. GLUECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 7:05 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise, Santa Cruz | 55 min |
| Aug 11, 4:03 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Cochise | 57 min |
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.