Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 6:10 PM MST for Pima County, Arizona. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1995, 6:10 PM MST (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1995, 7:15 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 00:00Z, 1.2 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 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 030108 RRA SVRTUS AZC019-030215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 610 PM MST SUN JUL 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HIGH WINDS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...NORTHERN PIMA COUNTY AT 606 PM TUCSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MARANA MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO THE MARANA AREA IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR AND TO ORO VALLEY BY 700 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. HOLBROOK v
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 2, 4:04 PM MST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AZZ009-010-030015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 407 PM MST SUN JUL 2 1995 ...SOUTHEAST ARIZONA THUNDERSTORM UPDATE... AT 400 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING THROUGHOUT COCHISE...SANTA CRUZ AND EASTERN PIMA COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN FAR EASTERN PIMA COUNTY. ONE STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREEN VALLEY...WITH ANOTHER 4 MILES EAST OF VAIL NEAR I-10. INDIVIDUAL CELL MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON HAVE SHOWN A TENDENCY TO GENERATE VERY STRONG AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS. REDUCED VISIBILITIES DUE TO BLOWING DUST MAY BE A PROBLEM NEAR SOME OF THESE STORMS. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:07 PM MST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
AZZ009-010-030015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 407 PM MST SUN JUL 2 1995 ...SOUTHEAST ARIZONA THUNDERSTORM UPDATE... AT 400 PM MST TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING THROUGHOUT COCHISE...SANTA CRUZ AND EASTERN PIMA COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN FAR EASTERN PIMA COUNTY. ONE STORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREEN VALLEY...WITH ANOTHER 4 MILES EAST OF VAIL NEAR I-10. INDIVIDUAL CELL MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON HAVE SHOWN A TENDENCY TO GENERATE VERY STRONG AND GUSTY SURFACE WINDS. REDUCED VISIBILITIES DUE TO BLOWING DUST MAY BE A PROBLEM NEAR SOME OF THESE STORMS. MEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:44 PM MST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
AZZ010-030045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 445 PM MST SUN JUL 2 1995 AT 440 PM TUCSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EMPIRE AND CORONADO MOUNTAINS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH BENSON... ST DAVID...TOMBSTONE...HUACHUCA CITY AND SIERRA VISTA AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 4O MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:45 PM MST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
AZZ010-030045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 445 PM MST SUN JUL 2 1995 AT 440 PM TUCSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EMPIRE AND CORONADO MOUNTAINS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH BENSON... ST DAVID...TOMBSTONE...HUACHUCA CITY AND SIERRA VISTA AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 4O MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:48 PM MST, 22 minutes before
AZZ009-010-030155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 551 PM MST SUN JUL 2 1995 AT 545 PM TUCSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FROM THE MARANA AREA EASTWARD ACROSS THE CATALINA MOUNTAINS THEN VAIL TO WILLCOX SOUTHEAST TO BISBEE AND DOUGLAS AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. STAY T^UNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. HOLBROOK
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:51 PM MST, 19 minutes before
AZZ009-010-030155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 551 PM MST SUN JUL 2 1995 AT 545 PM TUCSON DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FROM THE MARANA AREA EASTWARD ACROSS THE CATALINA MOUNTAINS THEN VAIL TO WILLCOX SOUTHEAST TO BISBEE AND DOUGLAS AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. HOLBROOK
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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.