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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 8, 1997Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1997, 1:24 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 41 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 8, 1997, 1:24 PM MST (20:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 1997, 2:05 PM MST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Whole counties

County Coconino County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 7, 2:30 PM MST, 22 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:30 PM MST, 22 hours 54 minutes before

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 12:25 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	55 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.