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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Flagstaff, AZ
NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this wind advisory at Mar 12, 2025, 12:52 PM MST for Apache County, Coconino County, Navajo County, Arizona. It took effect at Mar 13, 2025, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2025, 12:52 PM MST (19:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 13, 2025, 8:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 11:00 PM MST
- In force
- 15 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 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3116 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 12, 11:00 AM MST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 11:00 AM MST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:01 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | 29 min | |
| Mar 11, 7:50 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | Yavapai | 25 min |
| Mar 11, 7:52 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | Yavapai | 23 min |
| Mar 11, 8:08 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | FGZ | Yavapai | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 2:05 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Navajo | 51 hr |
| Mar 12, 2:01 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | FGZ | Apache, Coconino, Gila, Navajo, Yavapai | 39 hr |
Nearby
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.