Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1993, 9:39 PM MST for Apache County, Arizona. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 1993, 9:39 PM MST (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1993, 3:45 AM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Apache County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHX 200441 FFWPHX AZC001-017-201045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX ARIZONA 939 PM MST FRI FEB 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHOENIX ARIZONA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM MST FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA ...SOUTHERN APACHE COUNTY...SOUTHERN NAVAJO COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND WEATHER SPOTTERS IN NAVAJO COUNTY HAS REPORTED FLOODING IN THE PINETOP/LAKESIDE AREA AS WELL AS THE HEBER AND SHOW LOW AREAS. PETERSON DAM AND SCOTTS RESERVOIR DAM ARE BOTH FLOWING OVER THEIR SPILLWAYS...THREATENING AREAS DOWNSTREAM FROM THE DAMS. PORTER CREEK...BETWEEN SHOW LOW AND PINETOP/LAKESIDE...IS FLOWING OUT OF ITS BANKS. NUMEROUS ROADS AND HIGHWAYS HAVE BEEN CLOSED IN THE AREA INCLUDING STATE ROUTE 377 BETWEEN HEBER AND HOLBROOK. ABOUT A 100 FOOT SECTION OF THE HIGHWAY HAD WATER FLOWING OVER IT. ALL PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN NAVAJO AND APACHE COUNTIES NEED TO BE ALERT THIS EVENING FOR RISING WATER. TOWNS INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...HEBER...SNOWFLAKE...SHOW LOW...PINETOP/LAKESIDE...MCNARY AND SPRINGERVILLE. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DONT TRY TO CROSS FLOODING WASHES OR STREAMS. NEVER DRIVE ONTO A BRIDGE COVERED BY WATER. STAY OFF FLOODED CITY STREETS. OUTSIDE THE CITY...STAY ON MAIN HIGHWAYS. AVOID SECONDARY ROADS AND FARM ROADS...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. LOVEGROVE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Feb 19, 6:38 PM MST, 3 hours 1 minute before
AZZALL-200500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA 630 PM MST FRI FEB 19 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALL OF THE MOGOLLONG RIM IN COCONINO COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM... ...FLOOD WARNING FOR THE VERDE RIVER SYSTEM INCLUDING OAK CREEK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA TONIGHT... IT HAS BEEN RAINING IN NORTHERN ARIZONA BELOW ABOUT 8 THOUSAND FEET SINCE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. HEAVY SNOWFALL HAS OCCURRED ABOVE THAT ELEVATION. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE VARRIED WIDELY DUE TO THE SHOWERY NATURE OF THE RAINFALL BUT MOST AREAS HAVE RECEIVED AT LEAST AN INCH OF RAINFALL IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. SOME LOCATIONS HAVE RECEIVED NEARLY 3 AND A HALF INCHES. FLASTAFF RECEIVED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN BETWEEN 11 AM AND 5 PM. STREAMS THROUGHT THE MOGOLLON RIM AREA ARE FLOWING NEAR BANKFULL AND SOME ARE PRESENTLY FLOODING. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM STREAMS TONIGHT. IF YOU LIVE OR OTHERWISE MUST BE NEAR STREAMS KEEP AWARE OF THE WATER LEVEL AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AT ANY MOMENT. PETERSON
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 9:04 PM MST, 35 minutes before
AZZALL-200500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA 900 PM MST FRI FEB 19 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALL OF THE MOGOLLONG RIM IN COCONINO COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM... ...FLOOD WARNING FOR THE VERDE RIVER SYSTEM INCLUDING OAK CREEK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA TONIGHT... FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING IS A REAL THREAT OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN CO CONINO COUNTY TONIGHT. FLAGSTAFF HAS HAD 1.10 INCHES OF RAIN SINC 5 PM AND OVER 2 AND A HALF INCHES SINCE THE STORM BEGAN THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ROADS ARE FLOODED IN MANY AREAS EAST...WEST AND SOUTH OF FLAGSTAFF AS WELL AS IN TOWN. UP TO TWO FEET OF WATER ON ROADS IN TOWN. MANY ROADS ARE BECOMING IMPASSIBLE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY... AND PEOPLE SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM THESE FLOODED ROADS. SOME PEOPLE ARE BEING EVACUATED ALONG CATARACT CREEK IN THE TOWN OF WILLIAMS...30 MILES WEST OF FLAGSTAFF...AS THE WATER FLOWS OVER THE DAM ABOVE TOWN. ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF FLAGSTAFF A STREAM HAS BEGUN FLOODING INTO SOME HOMES. A BROAD BAND OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING INTO THE MOGOLLON RIM AREA FROM AS FAR SOUTH AS YUMA. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RETURN TO THE AREA AFTER A BRIEF RESPITE WITH LIGHT RAIN. PERSONS IN THE MOGOLLON RIM AREA SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM CREEKS... NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND RIVERS. IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO ANY WATERCOURSE BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AT ANY MOMENT. PETERSON
Special weather statement, Feb 19, 9:08 PM MST, 31 minutes before
AZZALL-200500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA 900 PM MST FRI FEB 19 1993 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALL OF THE MOGOLLONG RIM IN COCONINO COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM... ...FLOOD WARNING FOR THE VERDE RIVER SYSTEM INCLUDING OAK CREEK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA TONIGHT... FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING IS A REAL THREAT OVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN COCONINO COUNTY TONIGHT. FLAGSTAFF HAS HAD 1.10 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 5 PM AND OVER 2 AND A HALF INCHES SINCE THE STORM BEGAN THURSDAY AFTERNOON. ROADS ARE FLOODED IN MANY AREAS EAST...WEST AND SOUTH OF FLAGSTAFF AS WELL AS IN TOWN. UP TO TWO FEET OF WATER ON ROADS IN TOWN. MANY ROADS ARE BECOMING IMPASSIBLE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY... AND PEOPLE SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM THESE FLOODED ROADS. SOME PEOPLE ARE BEING EVACUATED ALONG CATARACT CREEK IN THE TOWN OF WILLIAMS...30 MILES WEST OF FLAGSTAFF...AS THE WATER FLOWS OVER THE DAM ABOVE TOWN. ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF FLAGSTAFF A STREAM HAS BEGUN FLOODING INTO SOME HOMES. A BROAD BAND OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING INTO THE MOGOLLON RIM AREA FROM AS FAR SOUTH AS YUMA. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RETURN TO THE AREA AFTER A BRIEF RESPITE WITH LIGHT RAIN. PERSONS IN THE MOGOLLON RIM AREA SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM CREEKS... NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND RIVERS. IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO ANY WATERCOURSE BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AT ANY MOMENT. PETERSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 9:39 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Navajo | 6 hr |
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.