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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 26, 2014Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2014, 10:29 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 26, 2014, 10:29 PM MST (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2014, 11:00 PM MST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Yavapai County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jul 26, 10:00 PM MST, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 10:00 PM MST, 29 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 8:26 PM MST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
826 PM MST SAT JUL 26 2014

AZZ008-016-018-037-270415-
GILA AZ-YAVAPAI AZ-COCONINO AZ-
826 PM MST SAT JUL 26 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  THE AREA OF STRAWBERRY WESTWARD TO THE CHILDS POWER PLANT.

UNTIL 915 PM MST

AT 819 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR STRAWBERRY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
WEST A 5 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA AND STORMS APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IN
A STURDY BUILDING.

IN ADDITION...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING. IF
STORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION OR YOU HEAR THUNDER...MOVE INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING OR AN ALL METAL VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3426 11156 3427 11163 3438 11164 3447 11162
      3448 11154 3443 11147 3428 11150
TIME...MOT...LOC 0324Z 180DEG 0KT 3439 11150

MCCOLLUM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 8:26 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ49 min
Jul 26, 10:59 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai31 min
Jul 26, 11:24 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai21 min
Jul 27, 12:00 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZYavapai45 min
Jul 27, 1:03 AM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZYavapai3 hr
Jul 27, 12:22 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ23 min
Jul 27, 12:43 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ32 min
Jul 27, 1:48 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ27 min
Jul 27, 1:57 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZApache2 hr
Jul 27, 2:13 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZApache32 min
Jul 27, 3:36 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZApache, Navajo84 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.