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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT for Navajo County, Arizona. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 14, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2003, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 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), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KFGZ 150000 TORFGZ AZC017-150030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 459 PM MST THU AUG 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL NAVAJO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA * UNTIL 530 PM MST * AT 458 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NAVAJO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF FOREST LAKES...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...HIGHWAY 377 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF HEBER AT 500 PM MST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MST THURSDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA. LAT...LON 3450 11027 3468 11030 3466 11066 3443 11062
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Navajo | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 6:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Navajo | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Gila | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 22 min |
| Aug 14, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 9:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 42 min |
| Aug 15, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 31 min |
| Aug 15, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 32 min |
| Aug 15, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 25 min |
| Aug 15, 5:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 61 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.