Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1995, 4:17 PM PDT for Inyo County, California. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 4:17 PM PDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 5:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Inyo County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 2937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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.
NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 27, 1:45 PM PDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:45 PM PDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION/NWSO LAS 88D REMAINS OUT THIS AFT BUT LDS/WLS SHOW LTG IN ESMERALDA AND S NYE COUNTIES. INSTABILITY MARGINAL BUT DYNAMICS INC AS VORT AHEAD OF SCHEDULE AND AFFECTING AREA DURING MAX HEATING. ALSO NOSE OF SPEED MAX MOVG INTO DESERTS OF CA PUTTING S NV IN FAVORABLE LEFT EXIT REGION. E-NE WINDS ALSO AIDING IN DEV OF CU NOW OVER MTNS TO OUR W AND INC DIR SHEAR. CLDS HAVE ALSO THINNED SO TEMPS WL HIT MID 80S EASILY AND HELP WITH TRW DEVELOPMENT. BEYOND THIS EVE...COOL POOL ALOFT WL BE IN AREA TOM AFT ALONG WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE. GRIDDED DATA SHOWS PRECIPITABLE H20 OF BETWEEN .60 AND .70 TOM...BUT DYNAMICS PROB WK OR NIL AS SYS WL BE EAST OF REGION. IS THIS REALLY THE DRY SEASON? LAS 64/87/64/88 3332 DRA 57/82/57/83 4332 SKRBAC .VEF...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 3:39 PM PDT, 38 minutes before
NVZ008-009-280030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 338 PM PDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EXTREME SOUTHERN NEVADA... AT 330 PM...RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CLARK, LINCOLN AND SOUTHERN NYE COUNTIES. MOST OF THE DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. A WEATHER SPOTTER AT MOUNT CHARLESTON REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND PEA-SIZED HAIL BETWEEN 300 AND 330 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THE OUTDOORS ARE URGED TO KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE TO THE SKY AND TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER WHEN A STORM APPROACHES. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. PIERCE
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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.