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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

October 18, 2005Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2005, 12:00 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 11 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: Oct 18, 2005, 12:00 PM MST (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2005, 12:11 PM MST
In force: 11 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coconino County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 11 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: 70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 181901
TORFGZ
AZC005-181915-
/O.NEW.KFGZ.TO.W.0004.051018T1900Z-051018T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
1200 PM MST TUE OCT 18 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL COCONINO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARIZONA

* UNTIL 1215 PM MST

* AT 1159 AM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF KACHINA VILLAGE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF SEDONA...
  MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KACHINA VILLAGE BY 1205 PM MST
  FORT VALLEY BY 1215 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 3498 11193 3499 11171 3533 11162 3536 11186

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KFGZ 181911
SVSFGZ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
1210 PM MST TUE OCT 18 2005

AZC005-181920-
/O.CAN.KFGZ.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-051018T1915Z/
COCONINO AZ-
1210 PM MST TUE OCT 18 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL COCONINO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY
WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3498 11193 3499 11171 3533 11162 3536 11186

$$

DJO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 12:45 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	30 min
Oct 18, 1:15 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	30 min
Oct 18, 1:47 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	28 min
Oct 18, 2:11 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	34 min
Oct 18, 7:05 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila, Yavapai	25 min
Oct 18, 7:27 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Gila	33 min
Oct 18, 7:28 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	13 min
Oct 18, 10:05 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	15 min
Oct 18, 10:31 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Navajo	44 min
Oct 18, 11:46 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	26 min
Oct 18, 1:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Apache	42 min
Oct 18, 1:36 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	26 min
Oct 18, 2:35 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Navajo	38 min
Oct 18, 3:41 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Apache	25 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.