Alert archive / Arizona / Red Flag Warnings in 2009
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this red flag warning at Mar 22, 2009, 4:40 AM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Mar 22, 2009, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 8 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
- Mar 22, 2009, 4:40 AM MST (11:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 22, 2009, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2009, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 8 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 11:43 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, 11.7 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
- 2443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 Mar 22, 4:09 AM MST, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 4:09 AM MST, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 22, 4:40 AM MST, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 440 AM MST SUN MAR 22 2009 AZZ004>018-037>040-230600- 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- 440 AM MST SUN MAR 22 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA...NORTH CENTRAL ARIZONA...NORTHEAST ARIZONA AND WEST CENTRAL ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE STATE TODAY AND TONIGHT... PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM UNTIL 11 PM MST FOR EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ARIZONA... INCLUDING SHOW LOW...WINSLOW...ST JOHNS AND WINDOW ROCK. SUSTAINED WINDS WILL REACH 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO TO 65 MPH. ELSEWHERE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT. FOR MORE DETAILS SEE PHXNPWFGZ. IN ADDITION...FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING A PERIOD OF LIGHT SNOW IS ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE... WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE OVER THE KAIBAB PLATEAU. SMALLER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE WITH A DUSTING POSSIBLE AS FAR SOUTH AS FLAGSTAFF. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. JJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 3:47 AM MST | High Wind Warning | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo, Yavapai | 19 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Arizona, 2009Every red flag warning in 2009
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.