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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 17, 2026Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2026, 11:39 AM MST for Coconino County, Arizona. It was in force for 3 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 17, 2026, 11:39 AM MST (18:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2026, 2:45 PM MST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Flagstaff, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Coconino County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 268 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 6:34 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Coconino	3 hr
Jul 16, 7:34 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Apache, Navajo	3 hr
Jul 16, 11:59 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Gila	5 hr
Jul 17, 2:36 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Jul 17, 3:29 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Coconino, Yavapai	3 hr
Jul 17, 9:12 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FGZ	Coconino	4 hr
Jul 17, 12:59 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGZ	Yavapai	31 min
Jul 17, 1:57 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Yavapai	3 hr
Jul 17, 4:45 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	FGZ	Yavapai	3 hr

Nearby

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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.