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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 4, 1997Gila County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1997, 5:57 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 63 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 4, 1997, 5:57 PM MST (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1997, 7:00 PM MST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1997-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 98 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 1997-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 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 4, 5:02 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai48 min
Aug 4, 5:30 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZGila90 min
Aug 4, 5:57 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila63 min
Aug 4, 6:46 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai44 min
Aug 4, 6:57 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZGila33 min
Aug 4, 6:57 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila33 min
Aug 4, 7:22 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino38 min
Aug 4, 7:36 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai54 min
Aug 4, 7:49 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila41 min
Aug 5, 11:42 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino63 min
Aug 5, 2:16 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai49 min
Aug 5, 2:45 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai50 min
Aug 5, 3:20 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZNavajo40 min

Nearby

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

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.