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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

February 14, 1995Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 1995, 2:30 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 1995, 2:30 PM MST (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Feb 14, 1995, 6:00 PM MST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Coconino County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Winslow (Autob), AZ at 12:00Z on 1995-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Winslow (Autob), AZ at 12:00Z on 1995-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 14, 1:41 PM MST, 49 minutes before
AZZ003-005-006-150100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WINSLOW ARIZONA
130 PM MST TUE FEB 14 1995

...WINDS ROAR ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PLATEAU...WHITE MOUNTAINS AND
MOGOLLON RIM AREA...
...WIND WARNING FOR WHITE MOUNTAINS AND NORTHEAST PLATEAU UNTIL 6 PM
MST...

WINDS HAVE DESTROYED A BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEXT TO THE NWS
OFFICE IN WINSLOW. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF BROKEN TREE BRANCHES HAVE BEEN
REPORTED IN WINSLOW ALONG WITH REPORTS OF VARIOUS OBJECTS BEING BLOWN
ABOUT.  THE WINDS HAVE BEEN CLOCKED AT 61 MPH IN WINSLOW. BAROMETER
READINGS CONTINUE TO DROP IN WINSLOW INDICATING THAT THE FRONTAL
PASSAGE HAS NOT OCCURED YET AND THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS OF EVEN
STRONGER GUSTS OCCURRING BEFORE DECREASING THIS EVENING. VISIBILIES
HAVE DROPPED AT TIMES TO LESS THAN 1/4 MILE DUE TO BLOWING DUST.
EXTREME CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN DRIVING THROUGHOUT THE WARNING AREA.
CROSSWINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE CAN BLOW AROUND SMALL VEHICLES.  HIGH
PROFILE TRUCKS AND CARS TOWING TRAILERS ARE IN DANGER OF BEING BLOWN
ABOUT ALSO.

ANY OUTSIDE OBJECT NOT TIED DOWN OR OTHERWISE STABILIZED MAY BECOME
AIRBORNE WITH A FORCE THAT COULD BE DANGEROUS.

MILAZZO

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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.