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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

January 14, 1993Monterey County, California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 14, 1993, 9:30 AM PST for Monterey County, California. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 14, 1993, 9:30 AM PST (17:30 UTC)
Expired
Jan 14, 1993, 12:00 PM PST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Monterey County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 1993-01-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 1993-01-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 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 San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 14, 3:45 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRMonterey3 hr
Jan 14, 6:49 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRMonterey2 hr

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.