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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 15, 2002Navajo County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2002, 9:41 PM MDT for Navajo County, Arizona. It was in force for 109 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 2002, 9:41 PM MDT (03:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2002, 11:30 PM MDT
In force: 109 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Navajo County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 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 
WGUS55 KFGZ 160341
FFWFGZ
AZC017-160530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
838 PM MST MON JUL 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CIBECUE CREEK AND THE TOWN OF CIBECUE IN SOUTHWESTERN NAVAJO    
  COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA

* UNTIL 1030 PM MST

* AT 834 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY 
  HEAVY RAIN FALLING 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CIBECUE...OR ABOUT 19 
  MILES SOUTH OF HEBER-OVERGAARD...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL AFFECT OR PASS CLOSE 
  RURAL SOUTHWESTERN NAVAJO COUNTY AT 850 PM MST

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN     
OVER THE HEADWATERS OF CIBECUE CREEK BETWEEN 730 PM AND 830 PM MST. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. 

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

LAT...LON 3423 11073 3402 11063 3398 11044 3406 11031
          3424 11052

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 8:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Navajo	22 min
Jul 15, 9:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Navajo	52 min
Jul 15, 10:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Navajo	60 min
Jul 15, 10:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Navajo	115 min
Jul 16, 12:37 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Navajo	53 min
Jul 16, 12:43 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Navajo	107 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.