Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

Issued

Aug 26, 1997, 1:32 PM MST (20:32 UTC)

Expired

Aug 26, 1997, 2:30 PM MST

In force

58 min

Issued by

NWS Flagstaff, AZ

Area

Whole counties

County Apache County, AZ

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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.

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TTAA00 KFLG 262033
FFWFLG
AZC001-262230-

BULLTIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
132 PM MST TUE AUG 26 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF AZ HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM MST
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA

   ...NORTHERN APACHE COUNTY
 
AT 130 PM MST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTH OF
CHINLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MILES
AN HOUR. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN
SOME OF THE SMALLER WASHES JUST SOUTH OF CHINLE.
 
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

NWS Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 26, 8:52 AM MST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
850 AM MST TUE AUG 26 1997

COMPUTER PROBLEMS PREVENTING A LOOK AT ANY NEW MODEL OR SATELLITE
DATA. REGARDLESS...88D TRENDS SHOW THE CURRENT FORECAST IS WORKING
OUT OK. HAVE BEEN FOCUSING ON EASTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY AND WESTERN GILA
COUNTY THIS MORNING AS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN OVER THIS
REGION...WHICH PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN LATE
YESTERDAY AND OVERNIGHT. BEST STREAM OF DEEP MOISTURE IS OVER THIS
REGION AS WELL. FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS UPDATED EARLIER FOR AN EARLIER
START AND THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA. CALLS TO THE AREA INDICATE WASHES AND
CREEKS ARE RUNNING PRETTY FULL SO IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH MORET RAIN TO
PUSH SOME OF THEM OUT OF THEIR BANKS. SHOULD BE A BUSY DAY.

FLG 535  INW 424

PASSETTI

FLG...FLASH FLOOD WATCH...THRU 8 PM MST...ZONES 008 (ERN HALF)
AND ZONES 012/013/015/016/018

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.