Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

Issued

Aug 4, 1997, 5:30 PM MST (00:30 UTC)

Expired

Aug 4, 1997, 7:00 PM MST

In force

90 min

Issued by

NWS Flagstaff, AZ

Area

Whole counties

County Gila County, AZ

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KFLG 050034
FFWFLG
AZC007-050125-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
530 PM MST MON AUG 4 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF AZ HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL ARIZONA

   ...NORTHWESTERN GILA COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM MST...FLAGSTAFF DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR GISELA PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES OF TWO
TO THREE INCHES AN HOUR. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE SOUTH OF
THIS AREA MOVING NORTH.  PERSONS NEAR TONTO CREEK SHOULD PREPARE
FOR RAPILY RISING WATER AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
SPRING AND GUN CREEKS WILL ALSO BE AFFECTED BY THE$SE STORMS.

DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! IF FLASH
FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UPHILL TO ESCAPE FLOOD
WATERS.  DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER
BEGINS RISING.

NWS Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 4, 1:55 PM MST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
150 PM MST MON AUG 04 1997

BUSY AFTERNOON HERE AT FLG...WITH SEVERAL FFW'S ISSUED WITH SOME
FLOODING REPORTED.. FROM A QUICK GLANCE AT 12Z DATA MODELS INDICATING
LITTLE CHANGE ON TAP FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS..ALBEIT A BIT OF DRYING
WILL OCCUR.  VORT MAX OVER NW AZ CONTINUES TO EXIT THE STATE...BUT
WITH LOTS OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE...THIS ALLOWED SOME HEAVY
RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. ONE REPORT RECEIVED OF 2
INCHES OF RAIN IN HALF HOUR. FOR THE LONGER TERM...WILL KEEP
SCATTERED POPS FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS...AS THERE IS NOT MUCH SIGH OF
BREAKING OUT OF THE PATTERN. FOR TEMPS...NOT MUCH CHANGE HERE
EITHER...AS MAX TEMPS WILL DEPEND MAINLY ON CLOUD COVER...EXPECT A
BIT OF WARMING OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS...AS SOUTHERLY FLOW
CONTINUES...WITH LESS CLOUDS TO PROVIDE A BIT MORE DAYTIME HEATING.
FLG 423  INW 522
FLG...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 5PM FOR ZONES 009 012 013 015 016

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.