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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Flagstaff, AZ

July 22, 2026Coconino County, Arizona

NWS Flagstaff, AZ issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2026, 3:45 PM 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 22, 2026, 3:45 PM MST (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2026, 6:45 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 22:44 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 344 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, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2026-07-22Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2026-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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 flash flood warning 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 21, 3:54 PM MST, 23 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:54 PM MST, 23 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 5:40 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino, Gila, Yavapai3 hr
Jul 21, 5:49 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino3 hr
Jul 21, 7:14 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino3 hr
Jul 21, 7:15 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZYavapai3 hr
Jul 21, 8:00 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino3 hr
Jul 21, 8:12 PM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino, Yavapai3 hr
Jul 22, 2:08 AM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZCoconino7 hr
Jul 22, 3:55 AM MSTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatFGZYavapai5 hr
Jul 22, 9:12 AM MSTAreal Flood WarningFGZCoconino11 hr
Jul 22, 1:14 PM MSTAreal Flood WarningFGZCoconino10 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.