{"id":1036,"date":"2012-07-24T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:17:17","slug":"24-july-2012-flagstaff-arizona-monsoon-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2012\/07\/24\/24-july-2012-flagstaff-arizona-monsoon-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"24 July 2012 | Flagstaff, Arizona | Monsoon Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had some nice, strong convection develop over Flagstaff today. Instability was approaching 1000 j\/kg and maybe a measly 15 kt of shear at best. Still, as I was heading back into the office after grabbing some lunch a little before noon, I noticed one of the developing cells was sporting a pretty sturdy lowering. I dropped lunch off at my desk and checked FGZ radar. The cell actually appeared to have a weak couplet associated with it. So I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a pop-up monsoon storm, it was actually a real beauty. The lowering I saw earlier was still in place, and based on its position in the rain free base and relative to the precipitation core, I’d hazard to call it a wall cloud. Further up along the back of the rain free base, an inflow tail was pressed up against the core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monsoon thunderstorm structure southwest of Flagstaff – July 24, 2012 \u2022 12:00 PM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As it moved eastward, it started to gust out and the inflow lowering became shelfy–and probably looked pretty menacing to anyone closer to the base.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Storm gusts out and produces a low hanging shelf – July 24, 2012 \u2022 12:03 PM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We had some nice, strong convection develop over Flagstaff today. Instability was approaching 1000 j\/kg and maybe a measly 15 kt of shear at best. Still, as I was heading back into the office after grabbing some lunch a little before noon, I noticed one of the developing cells was sporting a pretty sturdy lowering. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,24,40],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-arizona","tag-flagstaff","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}