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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 26, 1996Coconino County, Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 1:21 PM MST for Coconino County, Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 59 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 26, 1996, 1:21 PM MST (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1996, 2:20 PM MST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Whole counties

Counties Coconino County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 33 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 26, 9:01 AM MST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:01 AM MST, 4 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 26, 10:51 AM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
1045 AM MST FRI JUL 26 1996

TIME(MST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

300  PM    20 MILES WNW OF HEBER     AZ   5 TO 7 FUNNEL CLOUDS
07/25/96   COCONINO                       REPORTED NEAR CHEVELON
                                          RANGER STATION BY FOREST
                                          SERVICE OFFICIALS. NO
                                          TOUCHDOWNS OR DAMAGE
                                          REPORTED.

315  PM    20 MILES WSW OF HEBER     AZ   .10 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
07/25/96   COCONINO                N       COVERING GROUND TO A DEPTH
                                          OF 1.5 INCHES AT WOODS
                                          CANYON LAKE.

SJK/HP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 12:23 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	62 min
Jul 26, 1:05 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Gila, Navajo	60 min
Jul 26, 2:10 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Gila	30 min
Jul 26, 3:06 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	34 min
Jul 26, 3:34 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	56 min
Jul 26, 3:38 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	47 min
Jul 26, 4:00 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	2 hr
Jul 26, 4:18 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	2 hr
Jul 26, 4:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	59 min
Jul 26, 4:47 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.