Alert archive / Arizona / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 19, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Jun 5, 2012, 8:49 AM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Jun 5, 2012, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2012, 8:49 AM MST (15:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 5, 2012, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2012, 6:08 PM MST
- In force
- 7 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 15:46 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, 3.8 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
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
009 WWUS75 KFGZ 051549 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 849 AM MST TUE JUN 5 2012 AZZ004>007-009-010-012-013-015-039-040-060000- /O.NEW.KFGZ.WI.Y.0019.120605T1800Z-120606T0400Z/ KAIBAB PLATEAU-MARBLE AND GLEN CANYONS-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY- COCONINO PLATEAU-NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS HWY 264 NORTHWARD- CHINLE VALLEY-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM-BLACK MESA AREA- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREDONIA...PAGE... GRAND CANYON VILLAGE...SUPAI...CHINLE...KAYENTA...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...FLAGSTAFF...DILKON 849 AM MST TUE JUN 5 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING UNTIL 9 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING UNTIL 9 PM MST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE BY LATE MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS INCREASING TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY AND THE CHINLE VALLEY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS FROM 40 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/FLAGSTAFF. && $$
2 follow-up statements
813 WWUS75 KFGZ 052117 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 217 PM MST TUE JUN 5 2012 ...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA... .STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS CONTINUE ACROSS THE NORTHLAND THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS ACROSS NORTHWEST ARIZONA AND LIGHTER WINDS IN THE EAST. PEAK WIND GUSTS RECORDED THROUGH 1 PM MST INCLUDE: FLAGSTAFF .......... 44 MPH. GRAND CANYON ....... 44 MPH. PAGE ............... 41 MPH. WINSLOW ............ 40 MPH. AZZ004>007-009-010-012-013-015-039-040-060400- /O.CON.KFGZ.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-120606T0400Z/ KAIBAB PLATEAU-MARBLE AND GLEN CANYONS-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY- COCONINO PLATEAU-NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS HWY 264 NORTHWARD- CHINLE VALLEY-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM-BLACK MESA AREA- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREDONIA...PAGE... GRAND CANYON VILLAGE...SUPAI...CHINLE...KAYENTA...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...FLAGSTAFF...DILKON 217 PM MST TUE JUN 5 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MST THIS EVENING... * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY AND THE CHINLE VALLEY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS FROM 40 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/FLAGSTAFF. && $$
129 WWUS75 KFGZ 060108 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 608 PM MST TUE JUN 5 2012 AZZ004>007-009-010-012-013-015-039-040-060215- /O.CAN.KFGZ.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-120606T0400Z/ KAIBAB PLATEAU-MARBLE AND GLEN CANYONS-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY- COCONINO PLATEAU-NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS HWY 264 NORTHWARD- CHINLE VALLEY-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM-BLACK MESA AREA- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FREDONIA...PAGE... GRAND CANYON VILLAGE...SUPAI...CHINLE...KAYENTA...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...FLAGSTAFF...DILKON 608 PM MST TUE JUN 5 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTHEAST THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN THIS EVENING...AND AS IT LIFTS NORTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE. ALL REPORTING SITES ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA THIS EVENING ARE REPORTING WINDS GUSTS BELOW 40 MPH. EXPECT SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH THROUGH SUNSET...THEN WINDS DECREASING OVERNIGHT. $$
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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.