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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 26, 2007Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2007, 1:53 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 17 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
Jul 26, 2007, 1:53 PM MST (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2007, 2:10 PM MST
In force
17 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), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2007-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2007-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1129 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 26, 9:25 AM MST, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:25 AM MST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
930 AM MST THU JUL 26 2007

AZZ004>018-037>040-270700-
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 THU JUL 26 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR APACHE...COCONINO...NORTHERN
GILA...NAVAJO...AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

DEEP MOISTURE CONTINUES TO RESIDE OVER NORTHERN ARIZONA TODAY.
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP
FIRST OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS...MOGOLLON
RIM.... AND YAVAPAI COUNTY MOUNTAINS BY MID MORNING...AND MOVE SLOWLY
TOWARD THE WEST AND NORTHWEST DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. DUE TO
THE WEAK WIND FIELD ALOFT...STORMS WILL OCCASIONALLY BECOME STATIONARY...
AND WITH THE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE....PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL RATES ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. THESE
STORMS ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE DIMINISHING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

MODELS SUGGEST ADDITIONAL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
WITH INCREASING COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH STORM MOTION THAT MORE
FAVORS MOVEMENT INTO THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...ESPECIALLY
YAVAPAI AND NORTHERN GILA COUNTIES. MOISTURE CONTINUES OVER THE AREA INTO NEXT
WEEK FOR A CONTINUATION OF DAILY MAINLY SCATTERED LATE MORNING THROUGH
EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE ENTIRE PERIOD. SOME OF
THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

STAUDENMAIER

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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.