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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 14, 1999Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1999, 4:32 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 53 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 14, 1999, 4:32 PM MST (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1999, 5:25 PM MST
In force
53 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 23:35 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 1999-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 513 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, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 1999-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 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 Jul 14, 2:30 PM MST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:30 PM MST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 5:40 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZYavapai115 min
Jul 13, 7:35 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZYavapai2 hr
Jul 14, 11:43 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZCoconino72 min
Jul 14, 12:32 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai48 min
Jul 14, 12:59 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZCoconino116 min
Jul 14, 1:19 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZGila3 hr
Jul 14, 1:40 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZYavapai3 hr
Jul 14, 1:42 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila43 min
Jul 14, 3:45 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningFGZCoconino105 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.