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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 31, 1996Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 1996, 2:42 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 58 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
Aug 31, 1996, 2:42 PM MST (21:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1996, 3:40 PM MST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Yavapai County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 1996-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 1996-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 6:12 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai28 min
Aug 30, 6:40 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai30 min
Aug 31, 1:55 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai45 min
Aug 31, 3:38 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila27 min
Aug 31, 4:28 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila62 min
Aug 31, 4:49 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino61 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.