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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 12, 2005, 11:40 AM MST for Apache County, Navajo County, Arizona. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2005, 11:40 AM MST (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2005, 5:30 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Apache County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS55 KFGZ 121842
FFWFGZ
AZC001-017-130030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
1140 AM MST SAT FEB 12 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN APACHE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA
SOUTHEASTERN NAVAJO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SHOW LOW AND SPRINGERVILLE
* UNTIL 530 PM MST
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WHITERIVER...VERNON...THREE FORKS...ST. JOHNS...SNOWFLAKE...
PINETOP-LAKESIDE...LYMAN LAKE STATE PARK...LINDEN...GREER...
FORT APACHE...EAGAR...CONCHO...CARRIZO AND ALPINE.
AT 1130 AM MST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT RAINBOW
LAKE IN LAKESIDE HAS RISEN OVER THE SPILLWAY AND WATER LEVELS ARE
APPROACHING HOMES. ADDITIONALLY...NORMALLY DRY WASHES IN THE AREA
ARE ALREADY FLOODING ROADS. MEANWHILE...HEAVIER RAINS ARE APPROACHING
THE AREA. RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR MOST OF THE AFTERNOON AND THEN BECOME
SHOWERY AND TAPER OFF OVERNIGHT. STREAMS IN THE AREA HAVE ALREADY
SHOWN RISES OF SEVERAL FEET WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN YET TO OCCUR.
STREAMS AND RIVERS IN NORTHERN GILA AND SOUTHERN COCONINO AND NAVAJO
COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO SEE SIGNIFICANT RISES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL
HOURS.
NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL ALSO START FLOWING IF
THEY ARE NOT ALREADY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND
MUDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN STEEP TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY RECENTLY
BURNED AREAS.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
FLAGSTAFF.
LAT...LON 3383 11035 3364 11003 3359 10973 3383 10936
3382 10908 3461 10909 3483 11001
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 8:00 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Gila, Yavapai | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:00 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Gila, Yavapai | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:00 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Gila | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:40 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Navajo | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:00 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Navajo | 4 hr |
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.