A strong late season cold front moved across Arizona. The strongest winds were felt down wind from the White Mountains in Apache County.
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The episode as NWS FGZ wrote it up.
A strong late season cold front moved across Arizona. The strongest winds were felt down wind from the White Mountains in Apache County.
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 Apr 26, 4:45 AM MST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 445 AM MST SAT APR 26 2014 .SYNOPSIS...EXPECT AREAS OF RAIN AND SNOW TODAY...ALONG WITH COLD CONDITIONS AND GUSTY WINDS AS A STRONG LATE SEASON STORM SYSTEM MOVES INTO ARIZONA. THIS STORM WILL BRING SOME ACCUMULATING SNOW TO MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA ABOVE 6000 TO 7000 FEET THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THIS STORM WILL EXIT THE AREA TONIGHT WITH FAIR AND WARMER CONDITIONS RETURNING INTO NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...A STRONG AND COLD UPPER LOW NEAR BARSTOW WILL MOVE QUICKLY EAST TODAY...EXITING THROUGH THE FOUR CORNERS BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. IMPRESSIVE QG FORCING AHEAD OF THE LOW IS PRODUCING AREAS OF RAIN FROM FLAGSTAFF WESTWARD THIS MORNING. COLDER HAS ENTERED FAR WESTERN ARIZONA AND THIS WILL REACH FLAGSTAFF AROUND DAYBREAK. STRONG FRONTOGENESIS WILL ARRIVE RIGHT BEHIND THAT...WITH INSTABILITY SHOWERS TRAILING THE FRONT BY A FEW HOURS. MOST AREAS OF THE CWA SHOULD EXPECT 6-8 HOURS OF PRECIPITATION TODAY...WITH THE EASTERN BORDERS NOT SEEING THE FIRST DROPS UNTIL EARLY AFTERNOON. SNOW LEVELS ARE INITIALLY ABOVE 9000 FEET...BUT THESE WILL CRASH FAST AS -10C AIR AT 700 MB MOVES ALONG THE I-40 CORRIDOR. THE BEST COMBINATION OF DYNAMICS...MOISTURE AND COLD AIR SEEMS TO BE FROM THE WESTERN RIM NORTHWARD TO THE KAIBAB PLATEAU AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR THESE LOCATIONS. OTHER IMPACTS INCLUDE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT AND A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR MANY LOCATIONS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARIZONA TODAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE AWAY FROM THE STATE THIS EVENING WITH STRONG SUBSIDENCE DEVELOPING INTO SUNDAY. RIDGING WILL GRADUALLY WORK BACK OVER THE WEST COAST NEXT WEEK...BECOMING STRONG LATER IN THE WEEK. PERSISTENT NORTHERLY WINDS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL THROUGH TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY. && .AVIATION...FOR THE 12Z PACKAGE...A STORM WILL BRING WDSPRD RAIN AND SNOW TO NORTHERN ARIZONA TODAY. EXPECT WDSPRD MVFR CONDITIONS IN RAIN...AND SCATTERED MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS IN SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS NORTHERN ARIZONA TODAY MOSTLY ABOVE 6000 FEET MSL. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS 20-30KTS GUSTING 35-45KTS WILL RAMP UP THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING BEFORE DECREASING OVERNIGHT. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR AMENDMENTS. && .FIRE WEATHER...A PACIFIC LOW WILL BRING WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW TO NORTHERN ARIZONA TODAY. PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN AS RAIN AT HIGH ELEVATION SITES TURNING TO SNOW SEVERAL HOURS LATER AS COLDER AIR ARRIVES WITH THE LOW CENTER. MOST AREAS ABOVE 6000 FEET ELEVATION WILL LIKELY SEE WETTING RAIN WITH A QUARTER TO A HALF INCH OF PRECIPITATION...INCLUDING BOTH RAIN AND MELTED SNOW. SHOWERS WILL ABATE BY SUNDAY AND WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE AS THE STORM PASSES NORTHEAST INTO COLORADO. MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS RETURN. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS ON MONDAY BECOME NORTHEASTERLY ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDS ALONG THE WEST COAST. && .FGZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM MST SATURDAY FOR AZ PUBLIC ZONES 004-006-007-015 ABOVE 6500 FEET ELEVATION. WIND ADVISORY FROM 5 AM TO NOON MST SATURDAY FOR AZ PUBLIC ZONES 006>008-015-037-038. WIND ADVISORY FROM 8 AM TO 5 PM MST SATURDAY FOR AZ PUBLIC ZONES 009>014-016>018-039-040. && PUBLIC.........PETERSON AVIATION.......BOHLIN FIRE WEATHER...BOHLIN FOR NORTHERN ARIZONA WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT WEATHER.GOV/FLAGSTAFF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF AZ 620 AM MST SAT APR 26 2014 AZZ004>018-037>040-270700- WESTERN MOGOLLON RIM-GRAND CANYON COUNTRY-YAVAPAI COUNTY MOUNTAINS- YAVAPAI COUNTY VALLEYS AND BASINS-OAK CREEK AND SYCAMORE CANYONS- MARBLE AND GLEN CANYONS-KAIBAB PLATEAU-COCONINO PLATEAU- NORTHEAST PLATEAU AND MESAS HWY 264 NORTHWARD- NORTHEAST PLATEAU AND MESAS SOUTH OF HWY 264- CHINLE VALLEY-CHUSKA MOUNTAINS AND DEFIANCE PLATEAU- BLACK MESA AREA-LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN COCONINO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN NAVAJO COUNTY- LITTLE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY IN APACHE COUNTY- EASTERN MOGOLLON RIM-WHITE MOUNTAINS-NORTHERN GILA COUNTY- 620 AM MST SAT APR 26 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR APACHE...COCONINO...NORTHERN GILA...NAVAJO...AND YAVAPAI COUNTIES IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AN UNUSUALLY COLD PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN ARIZONA TODAY...BRINGING COLDER AND WINDY CONDITIONS AND AREAS OF RAIN AND SNOW. SNOW LEVELS WILL FALL FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH THE MORNING. LEVELS WILL BE AS LOW AS 5000 FEET IN SOME PLACES...BUT WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM 6000 TO 7000 FEET. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOWFALL ARE POSSIBLE ABOVE 6500 FEET...ESPECIALLY FROM FLAGSTAFF NORTHWARD TO THE KAIBAB PLATEAU. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THOSE AREAS. A WIND ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHERN ARIZONA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. RAIN AND SNOW WILL TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST THIS EVENING WITH DRY...WARMER AND BREEZY CONDITIONS ON SUNDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The ASOS at St Johns Airport recorded strong winds for several hours. The two highest gusts were 59 MPH at 835 AM and 60 MPH at 106 PM.
The Winslow Airport ASOS recorded a peak wind gust of 61 MPH at 200 PM.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, April 2014
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: 515447, 515448.