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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 24, 2024Gila County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2024, 5:12 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 5 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
Jul 24, 2024, 5:12 PM MST (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2024, 9:45 PM MST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 00:00Z, 0.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2024-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1301 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2024-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 12:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZApache30 min
Jul 25, 1:03 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai27 min
Jul 25, 1:07 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Yavapai28 min
Jul 25, 1:08 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Gila24 min
Jul 25, 1:21 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZApache, Navajo3 hr
Jul 25, 2:50 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZApache, Navajo3 hr
Jul 25, 3:20 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZGila25 min
Jul 25, 3:27 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZYavapai3 hr
Jul 25, 4:16 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai29 min

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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.