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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood watch at Jul 26, 2006, 7:31 AM MST for Coconino County, Yavapai County, Arizona. It took effect at Jul 26, 2006, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2006, 7:31 AM MST (14:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 26, 2006, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2006, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Coconino County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 26, 2:45 AM MST, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:45 AM MST, 4 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 10:00 AM MST, 21 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 1000 AM MST TUE JUL 25 2006 AZZ004>018-037>040-260700- 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- 1000 AM MST TUE JUL 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR APACHE...COCONINO...NORTHERN GILA...NAVAJO...AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA TODAY. MUCH OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD BEGIN INITIALLY ACROSS HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS LATER THIS MORNING AND THEN EXPAND INTO THE LOWER TERRAIN REGIONS OF THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY AND YAVAPAI AND NORTHERN GILA COUNTIES BY THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS TODAY IS ANTICIPATED TO BE HAIL OCCASIONALLY APPROACHING AND EXCEEDING THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...BUT LOCALIZED AREAS OF STRONG WINDS AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING COULD EVENTUALLY BECOME A CONCERN AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE EACH DAY AS ARIZONA REMAINS UNDER A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 5:22 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 23 min |
| Jul 25, 5:36 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 24 min |
| Jul 25, 6:31 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 59 min |
| Jul 26, 12:41 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Gila | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 2:12 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 3 min |
| Jul 26, 2:25 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 2:35 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila | 16 min |
| Jul 26, 3:02 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Navajo | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 3:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Apache, Navajo | 26 min |
| Jul 26, 3:28 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 3:44 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Apache, Navajo | 31 min |
| Jul 26, 4:00 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Apache, Navajo | |
| Jul 26, 4:04 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 4:45 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 30 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.