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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 30, 2005Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2005, 4:30 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for . 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 30, 2005, 4:30 PM MST (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2005, 4:30 PM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Yavapai County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 88 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 2005-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 890 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 2005-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
890 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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 302336
FFWFGZ
AZC025-310030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
430 PM MST SAT JUL 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN YAVAPAI COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA

* UNTIL 530 PM MST

* AT 428 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR CORDES JUCNTION...OR ABOUT
  21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMP VERDE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR...
  BLACK CANYON CITY BY 500 PM MST

CREEKS IN THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE TURKEY...SYCAMORE...AND 
POLAND WHICH ARE WEST OF I-17 NEAR CORDES JUNCTION. THIS WARNING INCLUDES 
THE CAVE CREEK COMPLEX BURN AREA AND THE FOLLOWING CREEKS...
INDIAN...SILVER...BISHOP...SQUAW...AND SOUTH FORK. ALSO IN THIS WARNING 
IS THE AGUA FRIA RIVER SOUTH OF CORDES JUNCTION. 


EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. 

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. 

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

LAT...LON 3402 11176 3417 11175 3428 11174 3435 11186
      3440 11197 3446 11211 3426 11222 3406 11212

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 1:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai29 min
Jul 30, 2:23 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai25 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.