Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2008, 12:54 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 21 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 7, 2008, 12:54 PM MST (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2008, 1:15 PM MST
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Yavapai County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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
Yuma Intl Airpor, AZ (KYUM), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:38 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Gila | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:27 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 2:34 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Yavapai | 104 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.