Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 2019
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 2019, 5:37 AM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 6 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
- Feb 15, 2019, 5:37 AM MST (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2019, 11:30 AM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:37 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 106 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Feb 15, 4:21 AM MST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 4:21 AM MST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 7:38 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 14 hr |
| Feb 14, 8:17 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 8 hr |
| Feb 14, 8:35 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 8 hr |
| Feb 15, 12:29 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:30 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Yavapai | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 4:40 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 5:16 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Gila, Yavapai | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 6:56 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | FGZ | Navajo | 4 hr |
| Feb 15, 9:29 AM MST | Areal Flood Warning | FGZ | Yavapai | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 11:36 AM MST | Areal Flood Warning | FGZ | Gila | 11 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:25 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Navajo | 4 hr |
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.