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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this red flag warning at May 12, 2008, 4:57 AM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at May 12, 2008, 9:00 AM MST. It was in force for 10 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
- May 12, 2008, 4:57 AM MST (11:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 12, 2008, 9:00 AM MST
- Expired
- May 12, 2008, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Counties Apache County, AZ, Coconino County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:55 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 4801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at May 12, 3:35 AM MST, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 3:35 AM MST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 3:36 PM MST, 13 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 336 PM MST SUN MAY 11 2008 AZZ004>018-037>040-120700- KAIBAB PLATEAU-MARBLE AND GLEN CANYONS-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY- COCONINO PLATEAU-YAVAPAI COUNTY MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS HWY 264 NORTHWARD-CHINLE VALLEY- CHUSKA MOUNTAINS AND DEFIANCE PLATEAU- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM-EASTERN MOGOLLON RIM-WHITE MOUNTAINS- NORTHERN GILA COUNTY-YAVAPAI COUNTY VALLEYS AND BASINS- OAK CREEK AND SYCAMORE CANYONS-BLACK MESA AREA- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- 336 PM MST SUN MAY 11 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA...NORTH CENTRAL ARIZONA...NORTHEAST ARIZONA AND WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO WEATHER HAZARDS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AN APPROACHING STORM SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE DRY AND WINDY CONDITIONS ON MONDAY. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST FIRE WEATHER ZONES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA EXCEPT FOR LOWER ELEVATION AREAS IN YAVAPAI COUNTY...NORTHERN GILA COUNTY AND THE SEDONA AND OAK CREEK CANYON AREAS. THE COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS ARIZONA STARTING TUESDAY MORNING NEAR THE UTAH BORDER AND MOVING DOWN INTO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THIS STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS...WITH SNOW SHOWERS IN THE HIGH COUNTRY AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. ON TUESDAY MORNING SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LIMITED TO THE UPPER ELEVATION AREAS OF THE KAIBAB PLATEAU AND SAN FRANSISCO PEAKS WITH AROUND 1 INCH OF SNOWFALL...WITH TRACE AMOUNTS POSSIBLE FOR OTHER HIGH ELEVATION AREAS ABOVE 7000 FEET. THIS COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE LESS THAN ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OF LIQUID PRECIPITATION ...ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST SHOWER BANDS. RB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:29 AM MST | Wind Advisory | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo | 17 hr |
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.