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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2010, 4:24 AM MST for Coconino County, Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 35 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
- Oct 5, 2010, 4:24 AM MST (11:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2010, 4:59 AM MST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coconino County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Oct 5, 3:30 AM MST, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 3:30 AM MST, 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 11:56 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 34 min |
| Oct 5, 1:04 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 26 min |
| Oct 5, 1:14 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Yavapai | 61 min |
| Oct 5, 2:06 PM MST | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Yavapai | 24 min |
| Oct 5, 3:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Gila, Yavapai | 32 min |
| Oct 5, 4:47 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Coconino | 3 hr |
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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.