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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Apr 18, 2023, 1:45 AM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Apr 19, 2023, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2023, 1:45 AM MST (08:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 19, 2023, 8:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2023, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Counties Apache County, AZ, Coconino County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 361 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 Apr 17, 2:45 PM MST, 11 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 2:45 PM MST, 11 hours 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.