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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 21, 2007Gila County, Navajo County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2007, 2:21 PM MST for Gila County, Navajo 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
Jul 21, 2007, 2:21 PM MST (21:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2007, 2:45 PM MST
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gila County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 2007-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 727 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 2007-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 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 212121
SVRFGZ
AZC007-017-212145-
/O.NEW.KFGZ.SV.W.0021.070721T2121Z-070721T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
221 PM MST SAT JUL 21 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL GILA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA...
  SOUTHWESTERN NAVAJO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ARIZONA...

* UNTIL 245 PM MST

* AT 213 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CIBECUE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SHOW LOW...AND MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL CENTRAL GILA COUNTY AT 240 PM MST
  RURAL SOUTHWESTERN NAVAJO COUNTY AT 240 PM MST

LAT...LON 3396 11037 3414 11042 3406 11088 3385 11082

$$

DJO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 11:48 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino14 min
Jul 21, 12:06 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Gila24 min
Jul 21, 12:09 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino36 min
Jul 21, 12:18 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino27 min
Jul 21, 12:48 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Yavapai27 min
Jul 21, 12:53 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila37 min
Jul 21, 1:20 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Yavapai40 min
Jul 21, 1:25 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila35 min
Jul 21, 1:59 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino31 min
Jul 21, 2:10 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila35 min
Jul 21, 4:10 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai35 min
Jul 21, 4:21 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZNavajo24 min
Jul 21, 4:43 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZNavajo47 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.