Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 5, 1995, 11:35 PM PST for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1995, 11:35 PM PST (07:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1995, 3:00 AM PST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Bernardino County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Edwards AFB, CA (KEDW), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 2868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Mar 5, 6:25 PM PST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
CAZ003-004-015-022-023-060600-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SANTA MARIA, CA
625 PM PST SUN MAR 5 1995
...RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUE ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST...
AT 6 PM SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RADAR DATA INDICATED THAT THE LAST
AREA OF MODERATE RAIN IS MOVING OVER THE AREA NOW AND A BREAK IN THE
RAIN IS EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS STILL BEING REPORTED
ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
A WEATHER SPOTTER IN CUYAMA AT 6 PM REPORTED HEAVY RAIN A SOME STREET
FLOODING. THIS SAME SPOTTER ALSO REPORTED THAT CALTRANS HAS CLOSED
PARTS OF HIGHWAY 166 DUE TO FLOODING. HIGHWAY 166 IS DANGEROUS TO
TRAVEL ON DUE TO THE FLOODING AND ASSOCIATED FOG.
SOME 24 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS ENDING AT 4 PM INCLUDE...
OLD MAN MOUNTAIN 2.60 INCHES
LOPEZ LAKE 1.65
SAN LUIS OBISPO 1.34
SAN MARCOS PASS 2.28
SANTA BARBARA 2.01
PASO ROBLES 1.01
LOMPOC 1.54
SANTA MARIA 1.42
MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION ON WET ROADWAYS TONIGHT.
SLOW DOWN AND ALLOW EXTRA DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR VEHICLE AND THE ONE
IN FRONT OF YOU. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
EVANSSpecial weather statement, Mar 5, 6:26 PM PST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
CAZ003-004-015-022-023-060600-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SANTA MARIA, CA
625 PM PST SUN MAR 5 1995
...RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUE ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST...
AT 6 PM SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RADAR DATA INDICATED THAT THE LAST
AREA OF MODERATE RAIN IS MOVING OVER THE AREA NOW AND A BREAK IN THE
RAIN IS EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS STILL BEING REPORTED
ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
A WEATHER SPOTTER IN CUYAMA AT 6 PM REPORTED HEAVY RAIN A SOME STREET
FLOODING. THIS SAME SPOTTER ALSO REPORTED THAT CALTRANS HAS CLOSED
PARTS OF HIGHWAY 166 DUE TO FLOODING. HIGHWAY 166 IS DANGEROUS TO
TRAVEL ON DUE TO THE FLOODING AND ASSOCIATED FOG.
SOME 24 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS ENDING AT 4 PM INCLUDE...
OLD MAN MOUNTAIN 2.60 INCHES
LOPEZ LAKE 1.65
SAN LUIS OBISPO 1.34
SAN MARCOS PASS 2.28
SANTA BARBARA 2.01
PASO ROBLES 1.01
LOMPOC 1.54
SAxNTA MARIA 1.42
MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION ON WET ROADWAYS TONIGHT.
SLOW DOWN AND ALLOW EXTRA DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR VEHICLE AND THE ONE
IN FRONT OF YOU. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
EVANSSpecial weather statement, Mar 5, 6:34 PM PST, 5 hours 1 minute before
CAZ003-004-015-022-023-060600-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SANTA MARIA, CA
625 PM PST SUN MAR 5 1995
...RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUE ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST...
AT 6 PM SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RADAR DATA INDICATED THAT THE LAST
AREA OF MODERATE RAIN IS MOVING OVER THE AREA NOW AND A BREAK IN THE
RAIN IS EXPECTED. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS STILL BEING REPORTED
ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
A WEATHER SPOTTER IN CUYAMA AT 6 PM REPORTED HEAVY RAIN A SOME STREET
FLOODING. THIS SAME SPOTTER ALSO REPORTED THAT CALTRANS HAS CLOSED
PARTS OF HIGHWAY 166 DUE TO FLOODING. HIGHWAY 166 IS DANGEROUS TO
TRAVEL ON DUE TO THE FLOODING AND ASSOCIATED FOG.
SOME 24 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS ENDING AT 4 PM INCLUDE...
OLD MAN MOUNTAIN 2.60 INCHES
LOPEZ LAKE 1.65
SAN LUIS OBISPO 1.34
SAN MARCOS PASS 2.28
SANTA BARBARA 2.01
PASO ROBLES 1.01
LOMPOC 1.54
SANTA MARIA 1.42
MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION ON WET ROADWAYS TONIGHT.
SLOW DOWN AND ALLOW EXTRA DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR VEHICLE AND THE ONE
IN FRONT OF YOU. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
EVANSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 9:35 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:35 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | San Bernardino | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:35 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Riverside | 3 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.