Alert archive / Arizona / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1996, 11:26 AM MST for Graham County, Arizona. It was in force for 49 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
- May 25, 1996, 11:26 AM MST (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1996, 12:15 PM MST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, AZ
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 25, 9:06 AM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 9:06 AM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 900 AM MST SAT MAY 25 1996 CONVECTION ALREADY STARTING TO TAKE OFF...ATTM CONFINED TO NRN ZONE 11 AND WRN ZONE 8. HAD A CIVILIAN REPORT OF A TORNADO BETWEEN LEUPP AND ORAIBI...CURRENTLY TRYING TO CONFIRM. 88-D SHOWING DECENT MESOCYCLONE TYPE ROTATION FROM 15 TO 19 KFT. LOOKS LIKE THE JOB FOR TODAY IS TO WATCH RADAR AND JUMP ON FEATURES THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY. POPS FOR FIRST PD COULD PROBABLY USE A NUDGING UP AS CONVECTION WILL BE RELATIVELY WIDESPREAD. OTHERWISE THE REST OF THE FCST LOOKS OKAY. NO CHANGES TO THE FCST TRENDS. GETTING THROUGH TODAY WILL BE THE PRIORITY. PEREZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 8:31 AM MST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AZZ008-011-251700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 830 AM MST SAT MAY 25 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EAST CENTRAL COCONINO COUNTY THIS MORNING... AT 8:15 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR REVEALED A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM APPROXIMATELY 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TUBA CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING LIGHTNING AND WILL CONTINUE GROWING THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. IF YOU ARE NEAR TUBA CITY AND CAMERON THIS MORNING...BE ALERT FOR DANGEROUS WEATHER AS THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE ADVISORIES/WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER |SITUATION. PEREZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:15 AM MST | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Navajo | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:18 AM MST | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 57 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.