Alert archive / Arizona / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Jan 31, 2016, 11:07 AM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2016, 11:07 AM MST (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2016, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 8 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 18:08 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, 6.1 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
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 465 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
244 WWUS75 KFGZ 311807 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 1107 AM MST SUN JAN 31 2016 AZZ012>014-040-010200- /O.NEW.KFGZ.WI.Y.0002.160131T1807Z-160201T0200Z/ 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...WUPATKI N.M....TUBA CITY...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...DILKON... KYKOTSMOVI 1107 AM MST SUN JAN 31 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS WILL PERSIST OVERNIGHT TONIGHT...BUT GENERALLY IN A MUCH MORE LOCALIZED MANNER. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 TO 50 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. && $$ KD
1 follow-up statement
331 WWUS75 KFGZ 010158 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 658 PM MST SUN JAN 31 2016 AZZ012>014-040-010300- /O.EXP.KFGZ.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-160201T0200Z/ LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY- NORTHEAST PLATEAUS AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WUPATKI N.M....TUBA CITY...WINSLOW... HOLBROOK...SNOWFLAKE...ST. JOHNS...SPRINGERVILLE...DILKON... KYKOTSMOVI 658 PM MST SUN JAN 31 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MST THIS EVENING... WIDESPREAD WIND GUSTS ABOVE 40 MPH HAVE LARGELY DIMINISHED THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...ISOLATED WIND GUSTS ABOVE 40 MPH MAY CONTINUE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND DOWNSTREAM OF HIGHER TERRAIN. $$
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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.