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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2012, 3:49 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2012, 3:49 PM MST (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2012, 4:15 PM MST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Coconino County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 4:10 PM MST | HAIL 1.75 | Cameron, AZ | AT CAMERON TRADING POST |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
146 WFUS55 KFGZ 162249 TORFGZ AZC005-162315- /O.NEW.KFGZ.TO.W.0003.120716T2249Z-120716T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 349 PM MST MON JUL 16 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL COCONINO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARIZONA... * UNTIL 415 PM MST OR 515 MDT * AT 346 PM MST...446 MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CAMERON...OR 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DESERT VIEW AT GRAND CANYON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CAMERON AND MILEPOST 295 ON SR 64 BY 355 PM MST OR 455 MDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR THIS STORM. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. && LAT...LON 3597 11129 3578 11124 3577 11158 3586 11160 TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 253DEG 21KT 3581 11148 $$ DB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 5:01 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Coconino, Navajo | 119 min |
| Jul 15, 5:35 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Gila, Navajo | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 20 min |
| Jul 15, 5:58 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Navajo | 51 min |
| Jul 15, 6:07 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 6:29 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 16 min |
| Jul 15, 9:46 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila | 14 min |
| Jul 15, 10:29 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Coconino | 90 min |
| Jul 15, 11:29 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Yavapai | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:30 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Yavapai | 87 min |
| Jul 16, 12:51 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 54 min |
| Jul 16, 11:52 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 23 min |
| Jul 16, 1:31 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 29 min |
| Jul 16, 1:39 PM MST | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 2:15 PM MST | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 16 min |
| Jul 16, 3:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 4:14 PM MST | Tornado Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 31 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.