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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

May 26, 1995Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 4:30 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 15 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 4:30 PM MST (23:30 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 4:45 PM MST
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Coconino County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Winslow (Autob), AZ (KINW), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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 1995-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 3:26 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino34 min
May 26, 4:20 PM MSTTornado WarningFGZCoconino25 min
May 26, 4:49 PM MSTTornado WarningFGZCoconino26 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.