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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 21, 1998Navajo County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1998, 8:05 PM MDT for Navajo County, Arizona. It was in force for 30 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: Jul 21, 1998, 8:05 PM MDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 1998, 8:35 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Whole counties

County Navajo County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 Jul 21, 3:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Navajo	47 min
Jul 21, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Navajo	50 min
Jul 22, 12:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	50 min
Jul 22, 1:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino	115 min
Jul 22, 1:54 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino	2 hr
Jul 22, 2:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino	2 hr
Jul 22, 4:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.