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Wind Advisory 22, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

October 13, 20254 counties in Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Oct 13, 2025, 1:28 AM MST for 4 counties in Arizona. It took effect at Oct 14, 2025, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 2025, 1:28 AM MST (08:28 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 14, 2025, 10:00 AM MST
Expired
Oct 14, 2025, 7:00 PM MST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Flagstaff, AZ

Counties Apache County, AZ, Coconino County, AZ, Navajo County, AZ, Yavapai County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Oct 12, 10:36 PM MST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 10:36 PM MST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 7:08 PM MSTTornado WarningFGZCoconino37 min
Oct 13, 6:31 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ29 min
Oct 13, 12:15 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ30 min
Oct 13, 1:01 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ29 min
Oct 13, 2:42 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ33 min
Oct 13, 2:49 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementFGZ26 min
Oct 13, 3:20 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZYavapai25 min
Oct 13, 3:42 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGZCoconino, Yavapai33 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.