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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 16, 1992Esmeralda County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1992, 8:44 PM PDT for Esmeralda County, Nevada. It was in force for 76 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1992, 8:44 PM PDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1992, 10:00 PM PDT
In force
76 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Esmeralda County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1992-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1992-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 16, 7:31 PM PDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS, NV
729 PM PDT SUN AUG 16 1992

TIME          EVENT

701 PM PDT    DEPUTY SHERIFF AT SILVERPEAK IN ESMERALDA COUNTY
              REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH SOME ROADS BEING FLOODED.

DODD/0230Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 7:03 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFEsmeralda117 min

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.