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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 12, 1998Gila County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1998, 2:15 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 50 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 12, 1998, 2:15 PM MST (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1998, 3:05 PM MST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Whole counties

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 1998-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 1998-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 12, 2:00 PM MST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:00 PM MST, 15 minutes before
NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
200 PM MST WED AUG 12 1998

SYNOPSIS...A UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE CENTER OVER NEVADA WILL SLOWLY
SHIFT SOUTHEAST THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. MONSOON MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO
REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA FOR CONTINUED DAYTIME
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.

DISCUSSION...LESS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY DUE TO RELATIVELY COOL
SURFACE CONDITIONS FROM CLOUDINESS EARLIER. 500MB FLOW IS A BIT MORE
COHERENT TODAY WITH HIGH CENTER OVER NEVADA PRODUCING NORTHEAST
STEERING WINDS FOR THE THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT. CHECK OF 12Z MODELS
SHOWS USUAL MUDDLED INITIALIZATION OF ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE. NGM/ETA
DO INDICATE AN INCREASE IN MID LEVEL RH AS FLOW BECOMES EASTERLY TO
SOUTHEASTERLY AS HIGH SHIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST. BIT OF DISCREPANCY IN
THE MODELS WHERE HIGH CENTER WILL END UP BY THIS WEEKEND. BUT
REGARDLESS...MOISTURE ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE...SO WILL CONTINUE LOW TO
MEDIUM GRA`DE MONSOON FORECAST. FLG252 INW232 ...SIGLER

FLG...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 9:40 AM MST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 3:50 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1998Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.