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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 15, 2000Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 2000, 4:56 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 19 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 15, 2000, 4:56 PM MST (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2000, 5:15 PM MST
In force: 19 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 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 11.9 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 183 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -343 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS55 KFGZ 152358
TORFLG

AZC025-160030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
456 PM MST TUE AUG 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS EXTENDED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL YAVAPAI COUNTY IN ARIZONA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CAMP VERDE...COTTONWOOD-VERDE VILLAGE

* UNTIL 515 PM MST

* AT 455 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR CAMP VERDE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORNVILLE AT 515 PM MST
  OVER VERDE VILLAGE AT 515 PM MST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3445 11190 3455 11172 3|479 11191 3468 11211

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 2:47 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	28 min
Aug 15, 3:12 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	33 min
Aug 15, 4:12 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	33 min
Aug 15, 4:27 PM MST	Tornado Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.