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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2024, 2:09 PM MST for Coconino County, Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 36 min. 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, 2:09 PM MST (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2024, 2:45 PM MST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Flagstaff, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Coconino County, AZ, Gila County, AZ
The radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2:01 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 297 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 12:55 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 50 min | |
| Jul 24, 1:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Coconino, Gila, Navajo | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 1:58 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 47 min | |
| Jul 24, 2:59 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | Gila | 16 min |
| Jul 24, 3:58 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | Gila | 32 min |
| Jul 24, 4:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGZ | Gila | 26 min |
| Jul 24, 4:44 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 46 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.