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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

June 23, 2005Apache County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2005, 5:10 PM MST for Apache County, Arizona. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 23, 2005, 5:10 PM MST (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2005, 5:34 PM MST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Apache County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 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 
WFUS55 KFGZ 240011
TORFGZ
AZC001-240045-
/O.NEW.KFGZ.TO.W.0002.050624T0010Z-050624T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
510 PM MST THU JUN 23 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL APACHE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA

* UNTIL 545 PM MST

* AT 505 PM MST...THE PUBLIC AND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  PETRIFED FOREST
  N.P. HEADQUARTERS...OR ABOUT 52 MILES EAST OF WINSLOW...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MILEPOST 315 ON I-40 BY 525 PM MST
  MILEPOST 320 ON I-40 AND 8 MILES WEST OF MILEPOST 325 ON I-40 BY
  545 PM MST

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3513 10984 3495 10984 3504 10951 3523 10958

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KFGZ 240034
SVSFGZ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
531 PM MST THU JUN 23 2005

AZC001-240041-
/O.CAN.KFGZ.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050624T0045Z/
APACHE AZ-
531 PM MST THU JUN 23 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL APACHE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT
PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD WEAKENED. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY
WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM.


LAT...LON 3513 10984 3495 10984 3504 10951 3523 10958

$$

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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.