1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 7, 8:45 PM MST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
NORTHERN ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ
845 PM MST SAT SEP 07 2002
.SYNOPSIS...DEEP MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE STATE WELL
INTO THE COMING WEEK. EXPECT WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO
CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY...BEFORE BECOMING MORE SCATTERED LATER IN THE
WEEK. SOME STORMS MAY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NEXT FEW
DAYS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW NORMAL.
.DISCUSSION... UPPER JET PULLING NORTH OF THE CWA WITH CONVECTION
WANING OVER THE AREA. RADAR STILL INDICATING LARGE AREA OF PRECIP...
MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN RIM AND SE YAVAPAI COUNTY. AS DIVERGENCE
ALOFT WEAKENS OVERNIGHT EXPECT GRADUALLY LESSENING OF RAINFALL
INTENSITY. WILL CONTINUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU MIDNIGHT.
SUNDAY LOOKS TO BE ANOTHER INTERESTING DAY. THE CWA WILL REMAIN IN
CONFLUENT REGION BTWN TROF OFF WEST COAST AND HI PRESSURE TO THE
EAST. SERIES OF VORT MAXES PROGGED TO PROPAGATE ACROSS WESTERN AREAS
DURING THE DAY WITH UPPER JET INFLUENCES. 00Z ETA INDICATING STRONG
200-300MB DIVERGENCE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. VERY MOIST SUBTROPICAL FEED TO
CONTINUE ACROSS THE STATE. PW VALUES AROUND 1 INCH SEEN ACROSS
SOUTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. WILL UPDATE ZONE TO DROP
SVR TSTM WATCH AND MAKE MINOR ADJUSTS AS NEEDED. DF
.FGZ...
FFA UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR AZZ004>009-012-015-016-018-037-038.
.CODED TEMPERATURES/POPS FOR SELECTED CITIES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA
CITY TEMPERATURES LO/HI PROBABILITY OF PRECIP
TON SUN MON TUE TON SUN MON TUE
FLAGSTAFF 052/066 051/067 048/070 070 080 060 060 040 050
WINSLOW 060/079 059/080 057/083 040 060 050 050 040 040
PRESCOTT 058/076 057/078 056/081 060 070 060 050 040 040
PAGE 064/078 064/079 063/082 060 070 050 050 040 040
WINDOW ROCK 053/070 052/069 052/072 040 050 050 060 050 050
CANYON DE CHELLY 060/076 059/075 059/078 040 050 050 060 050 050
COTTONWOOD 066/087 065/089 064/092 060 070 060 050 040 040
GRAND CANYON 053/067 052/068 049/071 070 080 060 060 040 050
GREER 051/063 050/064 047/067 090 100 080 090 060 070
HEBER 055/071 054/072 051/075 080 090 070 080 050 060
JACOB LAKE 052/063 051/064 048/067 050 060 040 040 030 040
NAVAJO N.M. 059/068 058/067 058/070 030 040 040 050 040 040
PAYSON 058/080 057/082 056/085 070 060 070 060 050 050
SEDONA 065/084 064/086 063/089 060 070 060 050 040 040
SELIGMAN 051/079 050/081 049/084 050 060 050 040 030 030
SHOW LOW 061/072 060/073 057/076 060 070 060 060 040 050
ST. JOHNS 056/075 055/076 053/079 040 060 050 050 040 040
WUPATKI N.M. 062/081 061/082 059/085 040 060 050 050 040 040The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Prescott Sheriff Office reported that washes were flowing in the Paulden area. The flooding washed at least one car off a dirt road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, September 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5320870.