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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 3, 2001Gila County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 4:32 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2001, 4:32 PM MST (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2001, 5:15 PM MST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KFGZ 032334
SVRFLG

AZC007-040015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
432 PM MST TUE JUL 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN GILA COUNTY IN ARIZONA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PAYSON

* UNTIL 515 PM MST

* AT 432 PM MST...FLAGSTAFF DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR TONTO VILLAGE TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAKES 
CORNER...OR FROM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF PAYSON TO 22 MILES SOUTH OF 
PAYSON...MOVING WEST AT 30 MPH.

STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS OF UP TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY FROM THIS 
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...HALF INCH HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND 
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY 
INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

LAT...LON 3443 11128 3430 11157 3396 11136 3391 11111
          3433 11096

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 3, 3:00 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:00 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes before

NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
300 PM MST TUE JUL 03 2001

SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL STRENGTHEN OVER THE NEXT FEW
DAYS AND RESULT IN A MORE STABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHERN ARIZONA.
EXPECT ONLY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON THE
FOURTH OF JULY. THE AIR MASS WILL ONCE AGAIN BECOME MORE MOIST AND
UNSTABLE LATER IN THE WEEK WITH AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY.

DISCUSSION...THE HIGH ALOFT OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION CONTINUES
TO STRENGTHEN AND GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS ARE EXPECTED TO APPROACH 600
DAM OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. THE STRONG SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS STRENGTHENING HAS STABILIZED THE ENVIRONMENT WITH WARMER
TEMPERATURES ALOFT AND MODERATE DRYING. SINCE THERE HAS NOT BEEN
MUCH IN THE WAY OF LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE REGION...THIS LOSS OF
MID LEVEL MOISTURE HAS HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CONVECTIVE
ACTIVITY ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. EXPECT THIS PATTERN TO HOLD FOR A
DAY OR TWO WITH ONLY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY
DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND THEN MOVING INTO THE LOWER
ELEVATIONS LATER IN THE DAY. THE HIGH BEGINS TO SHIFT FROM THE FOUR
CORNERS REGION TO EASTERN NM LATER IN THE WEEK AND EXPECT THE FLOW
TO VEER FROM THE EAST TO THE SOUTH. THIS SHOULD PRODUCE A GRADUAL
INCREASE IN MOISTURE AND CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. THERE IS SOME HINT OF
ANOTHER DRYING TREND LATE IN THE EXTENDED BUT GIVEN THE
UNCERTAINTIES IN THE LONG RANGE MODELS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR WILL
GROUP ALL DAYS TOGETHER AND GO WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS EACH DAY.

DB

.FGZ...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 4:21 PM MST, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA
0421 PM MST TUE JUL 3 2001

TIME (MST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    YOUNG                     AZ   50 MPH TSTM GUST
07/03/01   GILA                           1 IN RAIN IN 20 MIN BLEW LAWN
                                          CHAIRS AROUND KNOCKED DOWN 40 M
                                          ANTENNA SHINGLE DAMAGE SMALL HAIL.

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.