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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 16, 2005Gila County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2005, 4:46 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 20 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 16, 2005, 4:46 PM MST (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2005, 5:06 PM MST
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -712 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 
WUUS55 KFGZ 162348
SVRFGZ
AZC007-170015-
/O.NEW.KFGZ.SV.W.0021.050716T2346Z-050717T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
446 PM MST SAT JUL 16 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN GILA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PAYSON

* UNTIL 515 PM MST

* AT 438 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN         
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 
  MILES NORTH OF PAYSON...AND MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PAYSON BY 455 PM MST

LAT...LON 3428 11117 3440 11133 3422 11153 3410 11137

$$
JJ

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KFGZ 170006
SVSFGZ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
506 PM MST SAT JUL 16 2005

AZC007-170016-
/O.CAN.KFGZ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050717T0015Z/
GILA AZ-
506 PM MST SAT JUL 16 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN GILA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAS 
WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH 
MAY STILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3428 11117 3440 11133 3422 11153 3410 11137

$$

CK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 4:19 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila	26 min
Jul 16, 4:32 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila	28 min
Jul 16, 4:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	30 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.