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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Feb 21, 2023, 2:56 AM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It took effect at Feb 22, 2023, 2:00 AM MST. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2023, 2:56 AM MST (09:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2023, 2:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2023, 11:00 PM MST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
County Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 20, 3:05 PM MST, 11 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 3:05 PM MST, 11 hours 51 minutes before
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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.