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Flash Flood Warnings in Coconino County, Arizona

931 flash flood warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Coconino County and its neighbors

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Flash Flood Warnings
931
Busiest year
2022167 flash flood warnings
Average year
27over 35 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 56% of flash flood reports in Coconino County fell inside a flash flood warning issued on average 100 minutes before, and 73% of the flash flood warnings had no report inside them.

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814193%250%41 min
20092150%10%
201018478%2223%37 min
201116569%1450%58 min
201215193%520%429 min
2013281161%2050%57 min
201460100%20%
201521386%633%79 min
201613654%771%165 min
201728871%1182%134 min
2018601772%2463%190 min
201923770%1155%100 min
202070100%0
2021982673%4860%88 min
20221675567%10862%78 min
202340783%1650%115 min
202451982%1369%173 min
2025381268%1547%83 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The latest flash flood warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 17, 5:08 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr
Sep 16, 3:17 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr
Sep 16, 1:09 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ7 hr
Sep 16, 12:44 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ4 hr
Sep 16, 12:18 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ6 hr
Sep 16, 11:23 AM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr
Sep 13, 4:53 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr
Sep 13, 3:51 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr
Sep 13, 2:14 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr
Sep 13, 2:14 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr
Sep 13, 2:06 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ15 hr
Sep 13, 10:29 AM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZ3 hr

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.