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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

September 4, 2009Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2009, 2:05 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 25 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
Sep 4, 2009, 2:05 PM MST (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2009, 2:30 PM MST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Yavapai County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2009-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 180 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2009-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 4, 10:10 AM MST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 10:10 AM MST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 2:18 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila, Yavapai27 min
Sep 4, 2:40 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZYavapai110 min
Sep 4, 3:42 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZYavapai108 min
Sep 4, 4:37 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZYavapai4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2009Every severe thunderstorm 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.