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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1996, 7:45 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1996, 7:45 PM MST (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1996, 8:45 PM MST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yavapai County, AZ
The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 8, 1:41 PM MST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:41 PM MST, 6 hours 4 minutes before
NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 200 PM MST MON JUL 8 1996 ANOTHER ACTIVE AFTN ACROSS THE REGION. THTE RIDGE AND DEWPOINT PROFILE INDICATE CHC OF HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN ZNES 12 THROUGH 14...BOTH THIS EVE AND ESPECIALLY EASTERN MTNS TUE. ATM STABLIZES A BIT OVR WESTERN ZONES EXCEPT FOR NW...AS MOISTURE DECREASE SLIGHTLY THERE BY WED ACCORDING TO LATEST RAFS. PRECIP WATER RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS EAST BY WED AS WELL. SO SOMEWHAT LWR POPS FOR WESTERN YAVAPAI AREA. BEST CAPE ON ETA INDICATED TODAY BUT MODERATE INSTABILITY FOR AREAS EAST OF FLAG AGAIN TUE AND DECIDED TO RAISE CATEGORY FOR EASTERN MTNS TUE AS STORM COVERAGE SHOULD VINDICATE. MOTHER EARTH HAS HANDLED HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS WELL LAST FEW DAYS ACCORDING TO SPOTTERS...BUT CONTD EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY BECOME MORE OF PROBLEM THIS WEEK. BT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:16 PM MST, 4 hours 29 minutes before
AZZ004>007-0012>014-090000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 315 PM MST MON JUL 8 1996 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA... AT 3:00 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL COCONINO COUNTY EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF FLAGSTAFF TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF THE GRAND CANYON VILLAGE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORM IN THE LINE 10 MILES NORTH OF FLAGSTAFF. OTHER STORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHERN YAVAPAI COUNTY...SOUTHERN NAVAJO COUNTY AND NORTHERN GILA COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. DRIVERS ON HIGHWAY 180 NORTH OF FLAGSTAFF SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITY IN HEAVY RAIN AND SLICK ROADS. STREAMS AND LOW AREAS MAY FILL QUICKLY WITH WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA SOURCES FOR THE LATEST ON THE WEATHER SITUATION. SIGLER
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 6:34 PM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AZZ007-008-011>014-090340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 634 PM MST MON JUL 8 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER NORTHERN ARIZONA... AT 630 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN YAVAPAI...SOUTHERN COCONINO...SOUTHERN NAVAJO...AND SOUTHERN APACHE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED IN A LINE...ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE...FROM 20 MILES EAST OF PAYSON...TO JUST EAST OF WINSLOW. THESE STORMS CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...AS THESE STORMS PASSED OVER WINSLOW...35 MILE AN HOUR WIND GUSTS WERE REPORTED. GUSTY WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED ALONG INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN WINSLOW AND HOLBROOK. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS OVER YOUR LOCATION. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD DISSIPATE AFTER SUNSET. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE FOR FURTHER UPDATES. MCGRATH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:46 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 8:51 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 44 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.