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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Sacramento, CA

July 16, 1992El Dorado County, Placer County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1992, 5:12 PM PDT for El Dorado County, Placer County, California. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1992, 5:12 PM PDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1992, 7:15 PM PDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Sacramento, CA
Area
Whole counties

Counties El Dorado County, CA, Placer County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 1992-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 5:12 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSTOTuolumne2 hr

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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.