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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 9, 1989Mono County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 1989, 5:57 PM PDT for Mono County, California. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 1989, 5:57 PM PDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 1989, 10:30 PM PDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Whole counties

County Mono County, CA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFAT 100102
FFWFAT
CAC051-100058-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FRESNO CALIFORNIA
557 PM PDT WED AUG 9 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FRESNO CALIFORNIA HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
          ...SOUTHERN MONO
 
RADAR AND REPORTS FROM CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
INDICATE HEAVY RAIN AND AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING OCCURRING IN MONO
COUNTY. FLOOD WATERS ARE AS MUCH AS TWO FEET DEEP ON HWY 6 NEAR BENTON
BUG STATION AND ON HWY 120 EAST BETWEEN OLD BENTON AND NEW BENTON.
BOTH HIGHWAYS ARE PRESENTLY CLOSED FROM THEIR HWY 395 JUNCTIONS
EASTWARD TO THE NEVADA BORDER WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME LOCAL
TRAFFIC.
 
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.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEHN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

What 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

Local storm report, Aug 9, 5:20 PM PDT, 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS, NV
517 PM PDT WED AUG 09 1989

TIME          EVENT
1645 PM PDT   WEATHER SPOTER IN MANHATTEN (33 MILES NORTH OF TONOPAH)
              REPORTED STREET FLOOD>ING AND A HEAVY DOWN BURST.

1701 PM PDT   TONOPAH SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS HIGHWAY BETWEEN TONOPAH
              AND COALDALE JUNCTION CLOSED DUE TO THREE WASHOUTS.

SMITH/0019Z

The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 3:02 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Mono	4 hr
Aug 10, 3:35 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Inyo	3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.