Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 1988, 1:35 PM PDT for Imperial County, California. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1988, 1:35 PM PDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1988, 3:05 PM PDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Imperial County, CA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 1:35 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Imperial | 90 min |
| Aug 28, 4:10 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Imperial | 62 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in California, 1988Every flash flood warning in 1988
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.