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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Los Angeles, CA

January 25, 1995Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 25, 1995, 3:00 AM PST for Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 25, 1995, 3:00 AM PST (11:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 1995, 9:00 AM PST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Santa Barbara County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 80 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Jan 24, 10:51 PM PST, 4 hours 9 minutes before

CAZ011>023-050800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OXNARD CA
1050 PM PST TUE JAN 24 1995

...PRECIPITATION UPDATE FOR EVENING MEDIA BROADCASTS...

RAINFALL CONTINUES ACROSS MOST OF THE SOUTHLAND THIS EVENING.
PRECIPITATION TOTALS HAVE VARIED TREMENDOUSLY, WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN
OCCURRING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF VENTURA AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.

TO AID THE MEDIA IN THEIR EVENING BROADCASTS, WE ARE PROVIDING A BRIEF
BREAKDOWN OF SOME RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS THE SOUTHLAND.  THESE
TOTALS ARE FOR THE 24 HOUR PERIOD (900 PM MONDAY THROUGH 900 PM
TUESDAY).

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
    WOODLAND HILLS     3.43       COGSWELL DAM     6.14
    SEPULVEDA DAM      3.22       MALIBU           2.18
    LA CIVIC CENTER    1.38

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    SANTA BARBARA      2.87       SAN MARCOS PASS  4.97
    OLD MAN MOUNTAIN   6.65       LA CUMBRE PEAK   5.04
    GIBRALTER DAM      6.22

VENTURA COUNTY
    VENTURA            1.93       FILLMORE         2.52
    SANTA PAULA        3.11       MATILYA CANYON   5.17
    MOORPARK           2.01       NORDHOFF RIDGE   5.55

ORANGE COUNTY
    SANTA ANA          0.87       MILLER BASIN     1.10
    HUNTINGTON BEACH   0.75       SANTIAGO PEAK    2.22

RIVERSIDE COUNTY
    RIVERSIDE          0.60       LAKE MATHEW      0.60

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
    SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY   0.84
    DEVORE                  1.95
INFORMATION ON ALL CURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS ARE AVAILABLE
ON THE FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT ISSUED AT 955PM PST.

MCCLUNG

Special weather statement, Jan 24, 11:23 PM PST, 3 hours 37 minutes before

CAZ015-022-023-251100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SANTA MARIA, CA
1115 PM PST TUE JAN 24 1995

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 3 AM WEDNESDAY FOR SOUTHERN SANTA
BARBARA COUNTY...

AT 11 PM DOPPLER RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATED LIGHT TO
MODERATE RAIN HAD SPREAD OVER SANTA BARBARA COUNTY AND WAS JUST
ENTERING SOUTHERN SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY. MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING
FROM SANTA MARIA SOUTH TO LOMPOC. ALL AUTOMATED ALERT RAIN GAGES IN
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY HAVE RECORDED RAINFALL DURING THE LAST HOUR
EXCEPT FOR THOSE IN THE CUYAMA VALLEY.

THE HIGHEST 1 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS AS OF 11 PM ARE AS FOLLOWS...

    LOMPOC               0.32
    SUDDEN PEAK          0.35
    CACHUMA LAKE         0.28
    OLD MAN MOUNTAIN     0.43

PERIODS OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT AS A VERY SLOW MOVING
WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD INTO VENTURA COUNTY.

SOME ROADS THAT HAVE BEEN CLOSED IN SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA
COUNTY INCLUDE...

    HIGHWAY 1 SOUTH OF LOMPOC
    HIGHWAY 135 NORTH OF LOS ALAMOS
    OLD SAN MARCOS ROAD
    REFUGIO ROAD
    BELLA VISTA FROM LADERA LANE TO MARIPOSA LANE IN MONTECITO
    NORTHBOUND HIGHWAY 101 IS RESTRICTED TO ONE LANE 8 MILES EAST OF
    GAVIOTA BEACH.

SINCE THE GROUND IS SATURATED, ANY RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE RUNOFF.
STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN RISE QUICKLY EVEN WITH MODERATE RAINFALL
RATES. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA, STAY ALERT AND FOLLOW
DIRECTIONS OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS.

SARGEANT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 9:05 PM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Ventura	12 hr
Jan 24, 9:05 PM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara	12 hr
Jan 24, 9:05 PM PST	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Riverside, San Diego	12 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.