Alert archive / Arizona / Wind Advisories in 2017
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Jan 4, 2017, 7:01 PM MST for Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2017, 7:01 PM MST (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2017, 5:00 AM MST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Counties Coconino County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 547 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
285 WWUS75 KFGZ 050201 NPWFGZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 701 PM MST WED JAN 4 2017 AZZ012-015-051200- /O.NEW.KFGZ.WI.Y.0002.170105T0201Z-170105T1200Z/ LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WUPATKI N.M....TUBA CITY...FLAGSTAFF... WILLIAMS...MUNDS PARK 701 PM MST WED JAN 4 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM MST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FLAGSTAFF HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM MST THURSDAY. * TIMING...TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. * LOCATION...EAST OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN, INCLUDING THE HIGHWAY 89 CORRIDOR FROM DONEY PARK TO GRAY MOUNTAIN. HIGHWAY 64 FROM DESERT VIEW TO CAMERON. * WINDS...WEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS 40 TO 55 MPH. LOCALIZED GUSTS HIGHER THAN 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE NEAR THE SAN FRANCISCO PEAKS. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. CONSIDER SECURING LOOSE BELONGINGS ON YOUR PROPERTY. PROPERTY DAMAGE COULD OCCUR OVER LOCALIZED AREAS. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:35 PM MST | Wind Advisory | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo | 18 hr |
| Jan 5, 12:57 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo | 18 hr |
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.