Alert archive / Arizona / Mohave County / Flash Flood Warnings

Flash Flood Warnings in Mohave County, Arizona, 2015

54 flash flood warnings in 2015. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Mohave County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
54
Busiest month
July20 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
August 7, 20158 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

26 of 54 flash flood warnings covering Mohave County in 2015 had a flash flood report inside them; 32 of 40 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 84 minutes after it went out.

Mohave County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings542652%4080%84 min

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings1679146%25772%78 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 10, 11:27 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF93 min
Jun 13, 12:55 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jun 13, 2:38 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF112 min
Jul 2, 4:25 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 5, 11:47 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 5, 11:44 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 6, 1:53 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 6, 6:28 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 7, 2:01 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 7, 3:07 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 17, 10:35 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF115 min
Jul 18, 12:27 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 18, 1:07 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF6 hr
Jul 18, 1:23 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF6 hr
Jul 18, 1:50 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF5 hr
Jul 18, 2:20 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF6 hr
Jul 20, 1:46 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 20, 4:58 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 20, 6:01 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 30, 1:46 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 30, 2:29 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 30, 3:28 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 31, 3:36 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 6, 6:00 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF5 hr
Aug 6, 7:38 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 6, 11:31 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 7, 12:27 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 7, 12:48 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF117 min
Aug 7, 7:23 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 7, 12:30 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 7, 3:30 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 9, 3:12 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 13, 12:28 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 13, 1:20 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 13, 4:03 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 13, 4:33 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 23, 12:40 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Sep 9, 2:51 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF114 min
Sep 10, 4:18 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF117 min
Sep 14, 3:13 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF4 hr
Sep 15, 2:26 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF5 hr
Sep 22, 3:28 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 5, 6:43 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 6, 2:05 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 6, 2:40 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 6, 4:35 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF115 min
Oct 17, 3:51 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 18, 4:52 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 18, 6:44 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 18, 6:58 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 18, 7:56 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 20, 8:08 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 20, 1:46 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Oct 20, 2:15 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20142016

Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.