Alert archive / Arizona / 2016
Weather alerts in Arizona, May 2016
59 weather alerts in May 2016, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 59
- Warnings
- 10
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 21
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20169 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:04 PM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Pinal | 56 min |
| May 2, 1:43 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
| May 2, 1:58 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | TWC | Cochise, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 49 hr |
| May 3, 3:26 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | Gila, La Paz, Maricopa, Pinal, Yuma | 24 hr |
| May 4, 2:32 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 13 hr |
| May 4, 2:43 AM MST | Wind Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 41 hr |
| May 4, 3:20 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | PSR | Gila, La Paz, Maricopa, Pinal, Yuma | 41 hr |
| May 4, 2:12 PM MST | Wind Advisory | FGZ | Coconino, Navajo, Yavapai | 29 hr |
| May 4, 3:19 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | TWC | Cochise, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 29 hr |
| May 4, 3:19 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 53 hr |
| May 5, 2:58 AM MST | Wind Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 41 hr |
| May 5, 3:03 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Gila, Navajo, Yavapai | 15 hr |
| May 5, 9:13 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | PSR | 12 hr | |
| May 5, 9:19 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 11 hr |
| May 6, 2:17 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Santa Cruz | 18 hr |
| May 6, 11:01 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
| May 6, 7:01 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 44 min | |
| May 8, 3:32 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 28 min | |
| May 13, 1:24 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 25 hr |
| May 14, 2:01 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 29 min | |
| May 14, 2:30 PM MST | Wind Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Pima, Santa Cruz | 29 hr |
| May 14, 2:33 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 28 hr |
| May 14, 3:09 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 36 min | |
| May 14, 3:12 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 33 min | |
| May 14, 3:34 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo | 28 hr |
| May 15, 10:27 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Pima, Santa Cruz | 9 hr |
| May 16, 11:37 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 23 min | |
| May 16, 1:20 PM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 6 hr |
| May 16, 2:34 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 26 min | |
| May 16, 3:30 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 30 min | |
| May 17, 8:07 AM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 11 hr |
| May 17, 11:55 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 20 min | |
| May 17, 12:46 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 29 min | |
| May 17, 1:09 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 36 min | |
| May 17, 3:24 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | La Paz | 36 min |
| May 17, 3:38 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | La Paz | 112 min |
| May 17, 3:42 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 33 min | |
| May 17, 4:00 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 75 min | |
| May 17, 4:17 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | La Paz | 43 min |
| May 17, 5:29 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 31 min | |
| May 17, 5:50 PM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | PSR | 70 min | |
| May 17, 6:25 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 35 min | |
| May 17, 6:36 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | La Paz, Yuma | 114 min |
| May 17, 9:02 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Pinal | 43 min |
| May 18, 10:40 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Gila | 50 min |
| May 18, 12:34 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Greenlee | 26 min |
| May 18, 2:16 PM MST | Wind Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 57 hr |
| May 18, 3:21 PM MST | Blowing Dust Advisory | TWC | Cochise | 101 min |
| May 19, 1:04 PM MST | Wind Advisory | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo, Yavapai | 30 hr |
| May 20, 3:13 PM MST | Wind Advisory | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo | 28 hr |
| May 23, 4:30 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 22 hr |
| May 24, 2:23 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 41 hr |
| May 24, 3:18 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Gila, Navajo | 4 hr |
| May 25, 2:50 AM MST | Wind Advisory | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Pima, Santa Cruz | 16 hr |
| May 30, 4:48 AM MST | Excessive Heat Watch | PSR | 34 hr | |
| May 30, 2:54 PM MST | Excessive Heat Watch | VEF | Mohave | 23 hr |
| May 31, 10:14 AM MST | Excessive Heat Watch | TWC | Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz | 16 hr |
| May 31, 2:09 PM MST | Excessive Heat Warning | VEF | Mohave | 5 days |
| May 31, 2:21 PM MST | Excessive Heat Warning | PSR | 6 days |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Special Weather Statement | 20 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 2 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 9 |
| Wind Advisory | 8 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 8 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.