Alert archive / Arizona / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this red flag warning at Apr 27, 2008, 4:02 AM MST for Coconino County, Gila County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Apr 27, 2008, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2008, 4:02 AM MST (11:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 27, 2008, 6:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2008, 1:00 PM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Counties Coconino County, AZ, Gila County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 6319 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.