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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

June 29, 2021Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2021, 3:03 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 29, 2021, 3:03 PM MST (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2021, 3:45 PM MST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Coconino County, AZ

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

049 
WUUS55 KFGZ 292203
SVRFGZ
AZC005-292245-
/O.NEW.KFGZ.SV.W.0005.210629T2203Z-210629T2245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Flagstaff AZ
303 PM MST Tue Jun 29 2021

The National Weather Service in Flagstaff has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Coconino County in north central Arizona...

* Until 345 PM MST/445 PM MDT/.

* At 302 PM MST/402 PM MDT/, severe thunderstorms were located along 
  a line extending across the Utah/Arizona border near Lake Powell, 
  moving south at 15 mph. This will effect Lake Powell and Wahweap 
  Boat Ramp. 

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Page, Big Five, LeChee, Marble Canyon, Lees Ferry, Antelope Canyon
  Near Sr 98, Wahweap, Antelope Creek Basin, Lake Powell and
  Waterholes Canyon.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

If on or near Lake Powell, get away from the water and move indoors 
or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles 
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close 
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now!  Do not 
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.

&&

LAT...LON 3700 11110 3676 11115 3680 11199 3700 11193
TIME...MOT...LOC 2202Z 020DEG 11KT 3703 11121 3704 11184 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

ET

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 11:34 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	26 min
Jun 29, 11:56 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Jun 29, 1:05 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Jun 29, 1:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	32 min
Jun 29, 2:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Gila	3 hr
Jun 29, 3:39 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	36 min
Jun 29, 3:49 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Coconino	3 hr
Jun 29, 4:07 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	FGZ	Gila	23 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.