Alert archive / Arizona / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Mar 2, 2015, 3:35 AM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Mar 2, 2015, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2015, 3:35 AM MST (10:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2015, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2015, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 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 10:37 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 00:00Z, 10.6 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
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
896 WWUS75 KFGZ 021035 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 335 AM MST MON MAR 2 2015 AZZ010-012>014-040-030000- /O.NEW.KFGZ.WI.Y.0002.150302T1800Z-150303T0000Z/ CHINLE VALLEY-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHINLE...KAYENTA...WINSLOW...HOLBROOK... SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...DILKON 335 AM MST MON MAR 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DECREASE THIS EVENING BEHIND A COLD FRONT. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 55 MPH. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE FOR DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 THROUGH EASTERN ARIZONA. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
719 WWUS75 KFGZ 021958 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 1258 PM MST MON MAR 2 2015 AZZ010-012>014-040-030000- /O.CON.KFGZ.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-150303T0000Z/ CHINLE VALLEY-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHINLE...KAYENTA...WINSLOW...HOLBROOK... SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...DILKON 1258 PM MST MON MAR 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...BEFORE DECREASING THIS EVENING BEHIND A PASSING COLD FRONT. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 55 MPH. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE FOR DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 THROUGH EASTERN ARIZONA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH...OR GUSTS FROM 40 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION IS ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/FLAGSTAFF. && $$ KD
486 WWUS75 KFGZ 030029 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 529 PM MST MON MAR 2 2015 AZZ010-012>014-040-030130- /O.EXP.KFGZ.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-150303T0000Z/ CHINLE VALLEY-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHINLE...KAYENTA...WINSLOW...HOLBROOK... SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...DILKON 529 PM MST MON MAR 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AT 15 TO 25 MPH AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA...ADVISORY LEVEL GUSTS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$
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.