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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 13, 2021Yavapai County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2021, 6:18 PM MST for Yavapai County, Arizona. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 2021, 6:18 PM MST (01:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2021, 6:45 PM MST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Yavapai County, AZ

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

861 
WUUS55 KFGZ 140118
SVRFGZ
AZC025-140145-
/O.NEW.KFGZ.SV.W.0101.210814T0118Z-210814T0145Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Flagstaff AZ
618 PM MST Fri Aug 13 2021

The National Weather Service in Flagstaff has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Yavapai County in west central Arizona...

* Until 645 PM MST.

* At 618 PM MST, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles southwest
  of Seligman, moving west at 15 mph.

  HAZARD...Half dollar size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

* Locations impacted include...
  Cross Mountain.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3533 11294 3515 11296 3515 11325 3541 11322
TIME...MOT...LOC 0118Z 096DEG 18KT 3525 11305 

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.25 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH

$$

McCollum

1 follow-up statement

820 
WWUS55 KFGZ 140136
SVSFGZ

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Flagstaff AZ
636 PM MST Fri Aug 13 2021

AZC025-140145-
/O.EXP.KFGZ.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-210814T0145Z/
Yavapai-
636 PM MST Fri Aug 13 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YAVAPAI COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
645 PM MST...
                
The storm southwest of Seligman which prompted the warning has 
weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate 
threat to life or property. Therefore, the warning will be allowed 
to expire.

LAT...LON 3533 11294 3515 11296 3515 11325 3541 11322
TIME...MOT...LOC 0135Z 096DEG 18KT 3526 11312 

$$

McCollum

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 5:41 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	21 min
Aug 13, 6:09 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	25 min
Aug 13, 7:00 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	15 min
Aug 13, 7:39 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila	26 min
Aug 13, 8:09 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	36 min
Aug 13, 8:15 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Gila, Yavapai	2 hr
Aug 13, 8:38 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila, Yavapai	52 min
Aug 13, 9:03 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	42 min
Aug 13, 9:43 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	47 min
Aug 13, 9:51 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Yavapai	3 hr
Aug 13, 10:07 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Yavapai	53 min
Aug 14, 3:06 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila	39 min
Aug 14, 3:42 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila, Navajo	36 min
Aug 14, 3:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Gila	29 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.