Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 1989, 11:19 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1989, 11:19 PM PDT (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1989, 1:15 AM PDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NV
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
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLAS 190621 RRA
FFWLAS
NVC017-190815-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1119 PM PDT FRI AUG 18 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA
...NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN
A STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER PIOCHE NV IN NORTHEAST LINCOLN
COUNTY. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE AT PIOCHE NV REPORTED HEAVY RAIN THE PAST
HOUR AND ROADS WERE COVERED WITH WATER.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
DODD/0620ZWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 10:14 PM PDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS, NV 1009 PM PDT FRI AUG 18 1989 ...A THUNDERSTORM HAVE DEVELPED OVER NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA... LATEST RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY. AT 1005 PM THE SHERIFFS OFFICE AT PIOCHE REPORTED PEA SIZED HAIL AND A RAINSHOWER. HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR..FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST FROM PIOCHE. MOTORISTS TRAVELING ON HIGHWAY 93 GOING NORTH FROM PIOCHE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS THUNDERSTORM AND PLAN ACCORDINLY. DODD/0512Z
Local storm report, Aug 18, 10:20 PM PDT, 59 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS, NV
1017 PM PDT FRI AUG 18 1989
TIME PDT EVENT
1005 PM SHEFIFFS OFFICE AT PIOCHE NV IN NORTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY
REPORTED PEA SIZED HAIN AND A RAINSHOWER.
DODD/0519ZNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.