Alert archive / Arizona / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Oct 4, 2007, 1:58 AM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It took effect at Oct 4, 2007, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2007, 1:58 AM MST (08:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2007, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2007, 7:18 PM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
County Coconino County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 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 00:00Z, 9.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KFGZ 040858 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 158 AM MST THU OCT 4 2007 AZZ004-006-007-042115- /O.NEW.KFGZ.WI.Y.0021.071004T1800Z-071005T0400Z/ KAIBAB PLATEAU-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY-COCONINO PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACOB LAKE...FREDONIA... GRAND CANYON VILLAGE...SUPAI...NORTH RIM...VALLE 158 AM MST THU OCT 4 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM MST THIS EVENING. STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR TODAY AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING ARIZONA FROM THE NORTHWEST. WE ARE EXPECTING SUSTAINED SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS 35 TO 45 MPH OVER THE KAIBAB PLATEAU...THE GRAND CANYON AND THE COCONINO PLATEAU IN WESTERN COCONINO COUNTY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS FROM 40 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KFGZ 042103 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 203 PM MST THU OCT 4 2007 AZZ004-006-007-050400- /O.CON.KFGZ.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-071005T0400Z/ KAIBAB PLATEAU-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY-COCONINO PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACOB LAKE...FREDONIA... GRAND CANYON VILLAGE...SUPAI...NORTH RIM...VALLE 203 PM MST THU OCT 4 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MST THIS EVENING. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR OVER THE KAIBAB PLATEAU...THE GRAND CANYON AND THE COCONINO PLATEAU IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA WHERE SUSTAINED SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL SPREAD ACROSS ALL OF NORTHERN ARIZONA ON FRIDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS FROM 40 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. $$
000 WWUS75 KFGZ 050218 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 718 PM MST THU OCT 4 2007 AZZ004-006-007-050330- /O.CAN.KFGZ.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-071005T0400Z/ KAIBAB PLATEAU-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY-COCONINO PLATEAU- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACOB LAKE...FREDONIA... GRAND CANYON VILLAGE...SUPAI...NORTH RIM...VALLE 718 PM MST THU OCT 4 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. AT 7 PM MST...SURFACE OBSERVATIONS FROM NORTHERN COCONINO COUNTY INDICATED WIND SPEEDS WERE FAR LESS THAN NEEDED TO MEET WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THUS TODAYS WIND ADVISORY IS BEING CANCELLED. 41 $$
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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.