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Flash Flood Warnings in Mohave County, Arizona, 2016

57 flash flood warnings in 2016. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Mohave County and its neighbors

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Flash Flood Warnings
57
Busiest month
August40 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
August 3, 20167 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.

17 of 57 flash flood warnings covering Mohave County in 2016 had a flash flood report inside them; 22 of 37 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 92 minutes after it went out.

Mohave County, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings571770%3759%92 min

Each office's whole area, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings1234663%12566%84 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
Apr 11, 1:31 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jun 29, 2:54 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jun 29, 4:56 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jun 30, 3:02 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF28 min
Jun 30, 3:51 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jun 30, 4:46 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF4 hr
Jun 30, 5:46 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jun 30, 5:54 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF6 hr
Jul 2, 12:33 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF5 hr
Jul 2, 1:33 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 27, 4:07 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 30, 1:07 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Jul 30, 10:08 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 1, 1:15 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF2 hr
Aug 1, 1:43 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF92 min
Aug 1, 2:13 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF2 hr
Aug 1, 2:47 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF118 min
Aug 2, 12:50 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 2, 2:41 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 2, 3:04 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 3, 11:44 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 3, 12:29 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 3, 1:07 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 3, 2:37 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 3, 2:47 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 3, 3:12 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 3, 3:56 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF4 hr
Aug 3, 7:52 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 4, 12:07 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF113 min
Aug 4, 12:09 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF2 hr
Aug 4, 12:34 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF116 min
Aug 4, 1:31 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF119 min
Aug 9, 6:56 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF4 hr
Aug 10, 12:40 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF2 hr
Aug 10, 2:35 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF115 min
Aug 10, 3:32 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF6 hr
Aug 10, 4:18 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 10, 4:59 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 18, 2:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 18, 2:30 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 18, 5:26 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF2 hr
Aug 18, 6:08 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 20, 4:09 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 22, 3:31 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF6 hr
Aug 22, 5:03 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF6 hr
Aug 22, 8:22 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 22, 8:31 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 22, 8:46 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 22, 9:58 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 23, 5:47 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 26, 10:35 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Aug 27, 6:07 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF4 hr
Aug 27, 7:43 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Sep 1, 11:30 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF90 min
Sep 2, 5:12 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Sep 22, 6:28 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr
Nov 21, 4:52 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEF3 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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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.