Alert archive / Arizona / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 39, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Nov 11, 2011, 2:31 PM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Nov 12, 2011, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 2011, 2:31 PM MST (21:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 12, 2011, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2011, 1:02 PM MST
- In force
- 62 min
- 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 21:31 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 3452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
013 WWUS75 KFGZ 112131 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 231 PM MST FRI NOV 11 2011 AZZ011>014-017-039-040-121200- /O.NEW.KFGZ.WI.Y.0039.111112T1900Z-111113T0200Z/ 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-WHITE MOUNTAINS- BLACK MESA AREA-NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WINDOW ROCK...GANADO...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...SHOW LOW... DILKON 231 PM MST FRI NOV 11 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM MST SATURDAY FOR EASTERN ARIZONA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM MST SATURDAY. * TIMING: SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FOR EASTERN ARIZONA. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WITH STRONGER GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH OVER THE MOUNTAIN PEAKS. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS FROM 40 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/FLAGSTAFF. && $$
2 follow-up statements
901 WWUS75 KFGZ 121157 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 457 AM MST SAT NOV 12 2011 AZZ011>014-017-039-040-122000- /O.CON.KFGZ.WI.Y.0039.111112T1900Z-111113T0200Z/ CHUSKA MOUNTAINS AND DEFIANCE PLATEAU- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY-WHITE MOUNTAINS- BLACK MESA AREA-NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WINDOW ROCK...GANADO...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...SHOW LOW... DILKON 457 AM MST SAT NOV 12 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM MST THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON TODAY AND CONTINUE UNTIL EARLY EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS FROM 40 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/FLAGSTAFF. && $$
667 WWUS75 KFGZ 122002 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 102 PM MST SAT NOV 12 2011 AZZ011>014-017-039-040-122115- /O.CAN.KFGZ.WI.Y.0039.000000T0000Z-111113T0200Z/ 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-WHITE MOUNTAINS- BLACK MESA AREA-NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WINDOW ROCK...GANADO...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...SHOW LOW... DILKON 102 PM MST SAT NOV 12 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS IN THE ADVISORY AREA ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO REACH ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH. THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
Nearby
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.