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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 10, 2023Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2023, 4:51 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 3 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: Aug 10, 2023, 4:51 PM MST (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2023, 8:00 PM MST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Coconino County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 344 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: 153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 5:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	30 min
Aug 9, 6:00 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Coconino	3 hr
Aug 9, 8:25 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Aug 9, 10:40 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Navajo	10 hr
Aug 10, 12:47 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino	28 min
Aug 10, 2:15 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	FGZ		30 min
Aug 10, 2:34 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	FGZ		26 min
Aug 10, 3:01 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	FGZ		29 min
Aug 10, 3:36 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Apache, Navajo	39 min
Aug 10, 4:12 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Apache	21 min
Aug 10, 4:50 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Coconino, Navajo	40 min

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.