Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 6, 1992, 6:22 PM PST for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 1992, 6:22 PM PST (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 1992, 8:30 PM PST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Diego County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 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 KSAN 070223 FFWSAN CAC073-070430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 622 PM PST THU FEB 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM PST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA ...SOUTH CENTRAL SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATERS ON COTTONWOOD CREEK AT BARRETT JUNCTION HAVE RISEN RAPIDLY IN THE PAST HOUR AND THREATENED FLOODING OF HOMES IN THE AREA. HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN FALLING OVER SOUTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY FOR THE PAST TWO HOURS. WASHES WITHIN 20 MILES OF BARRETT JUNCTION MAY HAVE RISEN. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS ON ROADS CROSSING THESE WASHES. THE RAINS WERE DECREASING AND THE THREAT OF FLOODING WOULD DECREASE OVER THE NEXT TWO HOURS. 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.
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
Special weather statement, Feb 6, 3:45 PM PST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
CAZALL-070400 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 345 PM PST THU FEB 06 1992 ...HEAVY RAIN CAUSING URBAN STREET FLOODING IN SAN DIEGO... HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL CAUSE URBAN STREET FLOODING IN SAN DIEGO. LOCAL DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED AT TIMES AND CAN EASILY DROP A HALF INCH OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. STREETS AND LOW AREAS WILL RUN HEAVY WITH WATER AND CAUSE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. COMMUTERS ARE URGED TO ALLOW EXTRA TIME AND TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHILE DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED STREETS. CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING AS THE INTENSE PART OF THE STORM PASSES THROUGH SAN DIEGO. RAIN WILL DECREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE STORM WEAKENS WITH SHOWERS CONTINUING TO DECREASE FRIDAY. AFTER TEMPORARY DRYING THE NEXT INTENSIFYING STORM NORTH OF HAWAII WILL ARRIVE SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH MORE RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HIGH SURF. . SHIGEHARA
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.