Special Weather Statement
NWS Flagstaff AZ ยท US
Details
A Line Of Strong Thunderstorms Will Impact Black Canyon City Until 5 PM MST
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 431 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a line of strong thunderstorms extending from 8 miles west of Castle Hot Springs to Black Canyon City to 10 miles northwest of Sunset Mountain, moving southeast at 10 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Castle Hot Springs, Coles Bay, Humbug Bay, Goose Bay, Castle Creek Boat Ramp, Cottonwood Day Use Area, Lake Pleasant, Black Canyon City, Agua Fria National Monument, Humbug, Casa Rosa and Rock Springs. This includes Interstate 17 between mile markers 242 and 246. This includes the following recreation areas and campgrounds... Black Canyon Campground.
Instructions
Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening weather conditions. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. If on or near the north portions of Lake Pleasant, get out of the water and move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
Affected areas
- Yavapai County Mountains
- Yavapai County Valleys and Basins
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Flagstaff AZ
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~29s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M389R8YTC3XP09T0B23S6FV9
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.05a476f9019528b0a733c2b9685e4382af8902b5.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Flagstaff AZ
- AWIPS ID
- CAPFGZ
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.8912
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSFGZ |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS85 KFGZ 232331 |
| NWSheadline | A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT BLACK CANYON CITY UNTIL 5 PM MST |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-23T23:30:00-00:00...storm...293DEG...9KT...34.02,-112.49 34.04,-112.11 34.11,-111.9 |
| maxWindGust | 50 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.75 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Yavapai County Mountains
- Yavapai County Valleys and Basins
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 004025 |
| UGC | AZZ008 |
| UGC | AZZ037 |
- Polygons
- 34.15,-112.41 34.11,-112.15 34.2,-111.99 34.02,-111.88 34.05,-112.16 34.02,-112.16 34.01,-112.18 33.97,-112.2 33.96,-112.24 33.92,-112.24 33.88,-112.28 33.95,-112.53 34.09,-112.62 34.15,-112.41