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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

April 25, 2025Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Apr 25, 2025, 1:22 PM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Apr 26, 2025, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 2025, 1:22 PM MST (20:22 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 26, 2025, 10:00 AM MST
Expired
Apr 26, 2025, 7:00 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 20:25 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -61 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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
Apr 25, 2:33 AM MSTFire Weather WatchFGZApache, Coconino, Navajo11 hr
Apr 25, 2:33 AM MSTFire Weather WatchFGZApache, Coconino, Navajo11 hr
Apr 25, 1:53 PM MSTRed Flag WarningFGZApache, Coconino, Navajo29 hr
Apr 25, 1:53 PM MSTRed Flag WarningFGZApache, Coconino, Navajo53 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.