Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1990, 4:44 PM PDT for Fresno County, Madera County, California. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1990, 4:44 PM PDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1990, 6:40 PM PDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fresno County, CA, Madera 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KFAT 132344
FFWFAT
CAC019-039-140145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FRESNO CA
444 PM PDT FRI JUL 13 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF CALIFORNIA
NORTHEAST FRESNO...EASTERN MADERA
AT 4 25 PM PDT HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED BY THE SIERRA NATIONAL
FOREST DISPATCH OFFICE IN THE VICINITY OF KAISER PASS..AND THE
FLORENCE LAKE AREA. THE ROAD OVER KAISER PASS WAS REPORTED WASHED
OUT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE AREA WITH A REPORTED
2 TO 3 INCHES ACCUMULATION AS OF THIS TIME.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO
KNOW WHERE YOU ARE IN RELATION TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS THAT
CAN BECOME DEADLY WHEN SWOLLEN BY HEAVY RAIN. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS WHEN HEAVY RAIN THREATENS.S
JENKINS WSO FRESNOWhat 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, Jul 13, 1:00 PM PDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
CAZ010-013-019-140800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BAKERSFIELD CA 1.00 PM PDT THU JUL 13 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH MOUNTAIN AND DESERT PORTIONS OF KERN COUNTY VALID UNTIL 9 PM TONIGHT. TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM FORMER HURRICANE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE CAUSE OF THE THREAT OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAIN AND DESERT PORTION OF KERN COUNTY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH IN THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE ADVISED TO BE PREPARED AND NOT WAIT UNTIL A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED. SEVERAL HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED BY RADAR ON THE SOUTH AND WEST SLOPES OF THE SAN JACINTO AND SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWEST TOWARDS KERN COUNTY. NEXT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT 3 PM PDT UNLESS WARRANT AN EARLIER STATEMENT. WELLIVER
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 1:08 PM PDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
CAZ010-013-019-140800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BAKERSFIELD CA 1.00 PM PDT THU JUL 13 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH MOUNTAIN AND DESERT PORTIONS OF KERN COUNTY VALID UNTIL 9 PM TONIGHT. TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM FORMER HURRICANE FAUSTO HAS CONTRIBUTED TO CAUSING THE THREAT OF AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAIN AND DESERT PORTION OF KERN COUNTY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH IN THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE ADVISED TO BE PREPARED AND NOT WAIT UNTIL A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED. SEVERAL HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED BY RADAR ON THE SOUTH AND WEST SLOPES OF THE SAN JACINTO AND SAN BERNARDIN O MOUNTAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWEST TOWARDS KERN COUNTY. NEXT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT 3 PM PDT UNLESS CONDITIONS WARRANT AN EARLIER STATEMENT. WELLIVER
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:05 PM PDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
CAZ010-140300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FRESNO CA 2 05 PM PDT FRI JUL 13 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN SIERRA NEVADA... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 8 PM FOR THE SIERRA NEVADA. SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SIERRA NEVADA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN SOME AREAS. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS CONDTIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS PLANNING ACTIVITIES IN THE SIERRA NEVADA SHOULD BE ALERT TO FLASH FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATER. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. . FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. KOSIER
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
CAZ010-013-019-140800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BAKERSFIELD CA 3.00 PM PDT THU JUL 13 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH MOUNTAIN AND DESERT PORTIONS OF KERN COUNTY VALID UNTIL 9 PM TONIGHT. TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM FORMER HURRICANE FAUSTO HAS CONTRIBUTED TO CAUSING THE THREAT OF AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAIN AND DESERT PORTION OF KERN COUNTY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH IN THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE ADVISED TO BE PREPARED AND NOT WAIT UNTIL A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED. SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED BY RADAR NORTH OF THE KERN COUNTY LINE NEAR BISHOP WITH WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS AT THE KERN COUNTY LINE AT KERNVILLE SOUTH TO THE TEHACHAPI RANGE WITH ONLY LIGHT RAIN REPORTED. NEXT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT 5 PM PDT UNLESS CONDITIONS WARRANT AN EARLIER STATEMENT. HARGRAVE
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.