Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2004, 4:47 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 49 days. 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 17, 2004, 4:47 PM MST (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2004, 12:30 PM MST
- In force
- 49 days
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS55 KFGZ 172349
FFWFGZ
AZC007-180115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
447 PM MST SAT JUL 17 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL GILA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA
* UNTIL 615 PM MST
* AT 441 PM MST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN OVER MILEPOST 235 ON HWY 87...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF
PAYSON. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHEAST
PORTIONS OF THE WILLOW BURN AREA.
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. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
FLAGSTAFF.
LAT...LON 3406 11137 3404 11135 3402 11135 3399 11139
3399 11141 3402 11143 3402 11146 3408 11145
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS55 KFGZ 041739
FFWFGZ
AZC007-041930-
/X.NEW.KFGZ.FF.W.0002.040904T1732Z-040904T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
1032 AM MST SAT SEP 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS CONTINUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL GILA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA
* UNTIL 1230 PM MST
* AT 1030 AM MST...THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING IN AND AROUND THE
FLASH FLOOD AREA AT THIS TIME. DOPPLER RADAR IS INDICATING
RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES PER HOUR.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
MILEPOST 230 ON SR 87.
PREVIOUS FLOODING EARLIER THIS MORNING HAS CAUSED A ROAD CLOSURE DUE
TO MUDSLIDES. THE BEELINE HIGHWAY IS CLOSED FROM STATE ROUTE 188 TO
THE BUSH HIGHWAY TURNOFF.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
FLAGSTAFF.
LAT...LON 3398 11141 3389 11125 3399 11122 3405 11131
3400 11134
$$Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.