Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

Issued

Aug 7, 1997, 3:55 PM MST (22:55 UTC)

Expired

Aug 7, 1997, 4:30 PM MST

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Flagstaff, AZ

Area

Whole counties

County Yavapai County, AZ

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 072259 RRA
SVRFLG
AZC025-072330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
355 PM MST THU AUG 7 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF AZ HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL ARIZONA

   ...SOUTHWESTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY
 
AT 353 PM MST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY FLAGSTAFF
DOPPLER RADAR 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONGRESS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST
AT 10 MPH.  ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF
BAGDAD OVER STATE HIGHWAY 93...ALSO MOVING SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT
10 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE CONGRESS...AT THE
JUNCTION OF STATE HIGHWAYS 71 AND 89 IN YAVAPAI COUNTY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
H$OME OR BUSINESS.

NWS Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 7, 2:30 PM MST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
230 PM MST THU AUG 07 1997

TSTMS FIRING OVER YAVAPAI COUNTY AS THESE AREAS FINALLY REACHED
CONVECTIVE TEMP WITH ENUF LOW LVL MOISTURE...PRETTY MUCH AS EXPECTED
THO A HOUR OR SO EARLY. BLV DVGNC ALOFT ONE OF THE REASONS ITS FIRING
HERE...MORE SO THAN ERN RIM AND WHITE MTNS. TSTMS SHOULD DSPT AFTER
SUNSET...THO HAIL WILL APPROACH SVR SIZE WITH A FEW BARELY REACHING
SVR CRITERIA LATE THIS AFTN.

NEXT TWO DAYS DONT LOOK PARTICULARLY INTERESTING...THO WILL HAVE TO
WATCH LOW LVL MSTR SEEPING IN FROM S AND W ALONG WRN AZ BORDER. WITH
RDG PROJECTED TO SHIFT SLOWLY SE...DOOR MAY BE OPENED FOR THIS MSTR
TO SPREAD FURTHER EAST. IS ENUF TO INTRODUCE SLGT CHC FOR TSTMS OVER
THE HILLS FRI AND SAT. FLG0112 INW0001 CUOCO

FLG...NONE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1997Every severe thunderstorm 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.