Alert archive / Arizona / Excessive Heat Warnings in 2016
Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 16, 2016, 3:31 AM MST for Coconino County, Gila County, Yavapai County, Arizona. It took effect at Jun 19, 2016, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 35 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2016, 3:31 AM MST (10:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 19, 2016, 10:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2016, 8:32 PM MST
- In force
- 35 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Counties Coconino County, AZ, Gila County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Tuscon, AZ (KDMA), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 5410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jun 15, 3:40 PM MST, 11 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:40 PM MST, 11 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:05 AM MST, 23 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 405 AM MST WED JUN 15 2016 AZZ004>018-037>040-160600- KAIBAB PLATEAU-MARBLE AND GLEN CANYONS-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY- COCONINO PLATEAU-YAVAPAI COUNTY MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS HWY 264 NORTHWARD-CHINLE VALLEY- 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- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM-EASTERN MOGOLLON RIM-WHITE MOUNTAINS- NORTHERN GILA COUNTY-YAVAPAI COUNTY VALLEYS AND BASINS- OAK CREEK AND SYCAMORE CANYONS-BLACK MESA AREA- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- 405 AM MST WED JUN 15 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR APACHE...COCONINO... NORTHERN GILA...NAVAJO...AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT INCREASING SOUTHWEST WIND COMBINED WITH LOW HUMIDITY WILL LEAD TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY IN NORTHWEST COCONINO COUNTY, WITH NEAR CRITICAL CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TODAY IN NORTHWEST COCONINO COUNTY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NEAR-CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS EXTEND INTO THURSDAY THOUGH WINDS WILL BE SLIGHTLY WEAKER. HOT TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST FOR THIS WEEKEND, WITH AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY 6/19 THROUGH TUESDAY 6/21. THE WATCH IS VALID FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 4000 FEET IN YAVAPAI AND NORTHERN GILA COUNTIES AS WELL AS THE GRAND CANYON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
Nearby
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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.