Alert archive / Arizona / Red Flag Warnings in 2023
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this red flag warning at Apr 30, 2023, 12:52 PM MST for 4 counties in Arizona. It took effect at May 1, 2023, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 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
- Apr 30, 2023, 12:52 PM MST (19:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 1, 2023, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- May 1, 2023, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
Counties La Paz County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ, Yuma County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2:22 AM MST | Wind Advisory | PSR | Imperial, Riverside | 51 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.