Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 1997, 9:01 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 119 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
- Sep 25, 1997, 9:01 PM MST (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1997, 11:00 PM MST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yavapai County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFLG 260401 FFWFLG AZC025-260600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 901 PM MST THU SEP 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF AZ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM MST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ARIZONA ...WESTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY AT 900 PM MST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VRY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER WESTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY...MAINLY WEST OF PRESCOTT. ALSO...A SPOTTER IN THE TOWN OF BAGDAD REPORTED FOUR AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN SINCE LATE AFTERNOON. GULLEYS AND WASHES HAVE FILLED AND ARE FLOWING RAPIDLY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS STREAMS AND WASHES...AND DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! RESIDENTS OF WESTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING TONIGHT...AS SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS MAY BE COVERED BY FLOODWATERS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 25, 2:38 PM MST, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 2:38 PM MST, 6 hours 23 minutes before
NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 230 PM MST THU SEP 25 1997 CNTR OF NORA PSHNG INTO SWRN AZ ATTM JST E OF YUM AND CONTS TO MOVE NNE AT ABT 20-25 MPH. LOCAL 88DS NOW SHW HVST RNS ACRS MCH OF SWRN AND S CNTRL AZ WTH RNS SPRDNG ACRS WRN AZ INCLUDING YAV CNTY. SAT TRNDS AND CRRNT NHC FCSTS SUGGEST TRCK TO TK CNTR JST W OF PHX LTR THIS AFTN...TO NEAR FLG BY MDNGT THEN INTO SRN UT TOMORROW AM. THIS PRTTY MCH AS ERLYR ANTICIPATED THO MAYBE A BIT FRTHR E. PER THE SLGT FRTHR E TRCK...WILL ADD ZNS 9 AND 12 TO THE FFA FOR TNGT. AM A BIT CNCRND ABT LCK OF REAL IMPRSV AMNTS UPSTRM BUT AM COUNTING ON GUD TERRAIN ENHNCMNT ONC MAIN PRECIP REACHES OUR AREA. FEEL IT WUD BE A MSTK TO STRT BCKNG OFF UNTIL WE ARE SURE THE THRT IS OVR. MAIN FOCUS RMNS ON WRN...CNTRL AND NRN SCTNS BUT WILL CLSLY MONITOR SPRD OF PRECIP TO DETERMINE IF WTCHS NEED TO BE XTND FRTHR E AND NE TNGT. FOR NOW...EVRYTHNG APPRS IN PLC WTH MAIN FOCUS ON THE SHRT TRM. XPCT HVYR RNS TO CONT SPRDNG NNEWRD ACRSS SWRN AND WRN SCTNS OF OUR CWA THIS AFTN...CNTRL AND ERN SCTNS LTR THIS AFTN AND EVNTLY INTO THE N AND NE LTR THIS EVE OR TNGT. WNDW OF HVYST RN STILL LUKS TO BE LT AFTN THRU ERLY TOMORROW AM FOR THE MAIN THRT AREAS WITH LTST MODELS SHWNG BULLEYE UVV NR FLG BY 06Z TNGT. ACTVTY SHUD BGN TO WIND DWN FRM THE SW TO THE NE TOMORROW AS RMNTS BGN TO LFT NE OUT OF OUR AREA. FLY IN THE OINTMENT THO IS A SCNDRY SHRT WV PCKD UP BY ALL THE MODELS TO MV FRM SERN CA TOMORROW EVE ACRS CNTRL AZ TOMORROW NGT. ETA IS QCKST WTH THIS SYS AND PLCS IT OVR ERN/SERN AZ BY SAT AM WTH THE AVN SLWST IN PLCNG IT OVR SWRN AZ BY THIS TM. ETA DRST WTH 70H RH SHWNG SM LNGRNG MOISTURE FAR NE WHL AVN A LTTL MORE GNRS AND SHWS DCNT 70H RH FRM NERN AZ WSWRD ACRS N CNTRL AND WRN AZ INTO ERN CA. THIS MAY BE OVRDN BUT FEEL SM MOISTURE MAY LNGR INTO SAT ALL THNGS CONSIDERED. THUS...HAVE DCD TO SLW DWN THE IMPRVMNT AND WILL KP CLDS AND CHNC SHWRS NE THRU SAT. AREAS FRTHR S AND W WILL KP CLDS AND ISOLD POPS AT LEAST ERLY ON WTH QCKST IMPRVMNT XPCTD FAR WRN ZNS. WNDS NOT XPCTD TO BE A BIG CNCRN UP HERE TNGT THO STILL BELIEVE SERLY WNDS MAY RCH WNDY LVLS SOME OF THE HGHR LOCTNS TNGT. ATTM...DO NOT BELIEVE WND WTCHS OR ADVSRYS WILL BE NEEDED FOR OUR CWA. FLG 9732 INW 7620 FLG...FFA ZNS 04>09...12...15...16...18...TNGT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 7:01 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 119 min |
| Sep 25, 8:15 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 8:16 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 11:57 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 2 hr |
| Sep 26, 2:52 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 5:54 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 2 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:21 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 119 min |
| Sep 26, 10:32 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 88 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.