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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2016, 4:54 PM MST for Coconino County, Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 111 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2016, 4:54 PM MST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2016, 6:45 PM MST
- In force
- 111 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Coconino County, AZ, Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
634
WGUS55 KFGZ 292354
FFWFGZ
AZC005-007-300145-
/O.NEW.KFGZ.FF.W.0003.160629T2354Z-160630T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
454 PM MST WED JUN 29 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN GILA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ARIZONA...
SOUTHEASTERN COCONINO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ARIZONA...
* UNTIL 645 PM MST
* AT 446 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN NORTH OF 4 TO 7 MILES NORTH OF KOHLS RANCH UP ON
THE MOGOLLON RIM. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.
* FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS EFFECTING
FOREST SERVICE ROADS AND CAMPERS CAMPING OUT IN THIS AREA OF
NORTHWESTERN GILA AND SOUTHEASTERN COCONINO COUNTIES.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.0 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED
AREA.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...WILLOW CREEK...
WEST CHEVELON CANYON AND TURKEY CREEK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUT IN THIS AREA SEEK SAFE SHELTER AND WAIT UNTIL
THE FLOODING RECEDES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS...IT
IS NOT ONLY THE DEPTH OF THE WATER TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT BUT RAPIDLY
FLOWING WATER HAS A LOT OF FORCE BEHIND IT.
&&
LAT...LON 3453 11093 3436 11101 3439 11111 3453 11102
3454 11098
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 5:15 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Gila | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 5:21 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Gila | 24 min |
| Jun 29, 12:27 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | Yavapai | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 12:48 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 27 min | |
| Jun 29, 1:06 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 39 min | |
| Jun 29, 1:15 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:31 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 44 min | |
| Jun 29, 1:34 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 26 min | |
| Jun 29, 2:31 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 2:57 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 18 min |
| Jun 29, 3:30 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 30 min | |
| Jun 29, 4:03 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Navajo | 3 hr |
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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.