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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

August 10, 2023Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2023, 12:47 PM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 28 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 10, 2023, 12:47 PM MST (19:47 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2023, 1:15 PM MST
In force
28 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 Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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, 7.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2023-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 153 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2023-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 2:35 PM MST, 22 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 2:35 PM MST, 22 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 5:45 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino30 min
Aug 9, 6:00 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino3 hr
Aug 9, 8:25 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZCoconino, Yavapai3 hr
Aug 9, 10:40 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryFGZNavajo10 hr
Aug 10, 2:15 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ30 min
Aug 10, 2:34 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ26 min
Aug 10, 3:01 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ29 min
Aug 10, 3:36 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZApache, Navajo39 min
Aug 10, 4:12 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZApache21 min
Aug 10, 4:50 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Navajo40 min
Aug 10, 4:51 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino3 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.