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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 23, 20175 counties in Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood watch at Jul 23, 2017, 9:02 AM MST for 5 counties in Arizona. It took effect at Jul 23, 2017, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2017, 9:02 AM MST (16:02 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 23, 2017, 12:00 PM MST
Expired: Jul 24, 2017, 12:00 AM MST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Flood severity: None

Counties Apache County, AZ, Coconino County, AZ, Gila County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 23, 4:14 AM MST, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 4:14 AM MST, 4 hours 48 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 11:33 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	FGZ		42 min
Jul 23, 12:05 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	FGZ	Coconino	40 min
Jul 23, 12:20 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Coconino	4 hr
Jul 23, 12:32 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:01 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Coconino	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:31 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:39 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	FGZ		51 min
Jul 23, 2:50 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Jul 23, 2:56 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	49 min
Jul 23, 3:10 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	50 min
Jul 23, 3:26 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Jul 23, 3:33 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	27 min
Jul 23, 3:55 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila, Yavapai	25 min
Jul 23, 4:08 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila, Yavapai	37 min
Jul 23, 4:29 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	3 hr
Jul 23, 4:59 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	FGZ	Gila	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.