Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Tucson, AZ
NWS Tucson, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 2:20 PM MST for Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 2:20 PM MST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1995, 3:00 PM MST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tucson, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Cruz County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1909 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1431 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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 062119 RRA SVRTUS AZC023-062200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA 220 PM MST WED SEP 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA ...NORTHEASTERN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY AT 217 PM TUCSON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SONOITA ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 82. THIS STORM IS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH SONOITA AROUND 230 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 57 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. COLLINS
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 Sep 6, 2:32 AM MST, 11 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:32 AM MST, 11 hours 48 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 230 AM MST WED SEP 6 1995 AT 09Z...CONVECTION DIED OUT...ONLY MID AND HI CLDS LEFT OVER SE AZ. AMS OVR SE AZ STILL MOIST...THOUGH NOT LIKE YDA. DEW POINTS AT DUG INCRG TO 62. UPR LVL HI TO REMAIN OVR E CNTRL NM WED WITH WK E-SE FLOW ALF. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS MSTR PLUME FROM HENRIETTE SHEARING OUT TO SW AND NE. NE BRANCH CONCENTRATED OVR S CA/ W AZ AND APPEARS TO BE CAUGHT UP IN SW FLOW AHEAD OF PAC TROF. THE QUESTION IS HOW QUICKLY THIS MSTR WILL MOV OUT OF THE AREA. AIR MASS OVR NM, TX, AND SONORA IS DRIER... BUT NOT DARK ON WATER VAPOR LOOP. ENUF MSTR WED FOR WDLY SCT TSTMS...WITH PERHAPS MORE ACTIVITY IN ZONEX 10 THAN YDA. BY THU...HI DROPS TO SW NM AND WEAKENS A BIT. THIS TURNS FLOW A BIT MORE SLY. TUS 222. .TUS...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 3:36 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 54 min |
| Sep 6, 4:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TWC | Pima | 59 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.