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Wind Advisory 17, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

June 26, 2023Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Jun 26, 2023, 12:32 PM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Jun 27, 2023, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2023, 12:32 PM MST (19:32 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 27, 2023, 11:00 AM MST
Expired
Jun 27, 2023, 8:00 PM MST
In force
9 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 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 2023-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 12297 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Phoenix, AZ at 12:00Z on 2023-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
12297 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
13.9
Supercell composite
73.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 12:53 PM MSTFire Weather WatchFGZApache, Coconino, Gila, Navajo, Yavapai24 hr
Jun 26, 12:53 PM MSTRed Flag WarningFGZApache, Coconino, Gila, Navajo, Yavapai31 hr

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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.