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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Sacramento, CA

January 9, 1995Sacramento County, Solano County, Yolo County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1995, 9:45 PM PST for Sacramento County, Solano County, Yolo County, California. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 9, 1995, 9:45 PM PST (05:45 UTC)
Expired
Jan 10, 1995, 12:45 AM PST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Sacramento, CA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Sacramento County, CA, Solano County, CA, Yolo County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 1995-01-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 131 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, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 1995-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
359 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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
Jan 9, 9:45 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningSTOPlacer, Sutter, Yuba3 hr
Jan 9, 9:45 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningSTOColusa3 hr
Jan 10, 1:12 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTONevada, Placer46 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.