Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS San Diego, CA

Issued

Aug 1, 1992, 1:18 PM PDT (20:18 UTC)

Expired

Aug 1, 1992, 2:15 PM PDT

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS San Diego, CA

Area

Whole counties

County San Diego County, CA

000 
TTAA00 KSAN 012019
FFWSAN
CAC073-012115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
118 PM PDT SAT AUG 1 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA
 
   ...NORTH CENTRAL SAN DIEGO COUNTY
 
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE HENSHAW AT 12:30 PM OCCURRED CAUSING
PHYSICAL INJURY TO A 30 YEAR OLD WOMAN WHEN LIGHTNING STRUCK HER. SHE
REPORTEDLY SUFFERED SEVERE NECK BURNS AND IS BEING TREATED BY
PARAMEDICS AT THIS TIME.
 
THERE HAS BEEN A RAPID INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACITIVITY FROM THE BIG
BEAR SOUTH TO NEAR ESCONDIDO. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWEST
AND MAY REACH SOME OF THE COASTAL AREAS BY LATE AFTERNOON.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

In the hours before

CAZ013-018-020030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
1132 AM PDT SAT AUG 1 1992

....THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SAN DIEGO AND IMPERIAL COUNTIES THIS
MORNING...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE CALIFORNIA/MEXICAN BORDER NEAR
DESCANSO AND CAMPO CALIFORNIA. RADAR REPORTS THE MOVEMENT IS TOWARD
THE NORTHWEST WITH TOPS OF THE THUNDERSTORMS UP TO 43000 FEET. A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS OF SAN
DIEGO COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE
POTENTIAL FOR LOCAL FLOODING..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.

IF YOUR OBSERVE WATER RUNNING ACROSS THE ROADWAY DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDTITIONS WARRANT.

R. STITT

Flash Flood Warnings in California, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.