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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 18, 2020Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2020, 3:26 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 2020, 3:26 PM MST (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 2020, 4:00 PM MST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Yavapai County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2020-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 184 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2020-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 5:07 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZGila38 min
Aug 17, 5:48 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZGila42 min
Aug 17, 6:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila45 min
Aug 17, 6:21 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZYavapai39 min
Aug 17, 6:58 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZYavapai47 min
Aug 18, 12:51 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ39 min
Aug 18, 1:29 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Yavapai31 min
Aug 18, 2:36 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ39 min
Aug 18, 4:29 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZYavapai31 min

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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.