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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 2:21 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2005, 2:21 PM MST (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 2:47 PM MST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Yavapai County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 930 AM MST SUN AUG 14 2005 AZZ004>018-037>040-150700- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY-YAVAPAI COUNTY MOUNTAINS- YAVAPAI COUNTY VALLEYS AND BASINS-OAK CREEK AND SYCAMORE CANYONS- MARBLE AND GLEN CANYONS-KAIBAB PLATEAU-COCONINO PLATEAU- NORTHEAST PLATEAU AND MESAS HWY 264 NORTHWARD- NORTHEAST PLATEAU AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- CHINLE VALLEY-CHUSKA MOUNTAINS AND DEFIANCE PLATEAU- BLACK MESA AREA-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY- EASTERN MOGOLLON RIM-WHITE MOUNTAINS-NORTHERN GILA COUNTY- 930 AM MST SUN AUG 14 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR APACHE...COCONINO...NORTHERN GILA...NAVAJO...AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE REGION IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AGAIN TODAY. LOOK FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP BY NOON AND CONTINUE WELL INTO THE EVENING. WIDESPREAD STORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS THE REGION WITH THE MOST INTENSE ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOGOLLON RIM ...WHITE MOUNTAINS...YAVAPAI COUNTY...AND NORTHERN GILA COUNTY. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM TODAYS STORMS WILL BE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED SIGNIFICANT RAINS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY LOOK FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP EACH DAY. BY MID-WEEK HOWEVER...DRIER AIR IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE STATE...LEADING TO AN OVERALL DECREASE IN THE DAILY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 4:17 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 58 min |
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.