Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Las Vegas, NV

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
912 AM PDT MON JUL 15 1996

LWR LVLS REALLY JUICED TDY WITH DPS IN THE UPR 50S TO UPR 60S
CWA WIDE.  THIS MORE SO THAN YSRDY.  IN ADDITION COOLER AND DRIER
IN THE UPR LVLS THIS TO CAUSE OVERSHOOTING TOPS AND GREATER
INSTABILITY.  DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS AND LWR WET BULB HAVE
CHANGES WRDG TO PREV FCST WITH TRW LIKELY WITH SOME HAIL IN
AZZ1&3...INCR POPS AND WL ISSUE FFA FOR NVZ9 AZ1...2...3.  NO NEW DATA
TO LUK AT THIS MRNG TO GO ALG WITH SNDG DATA.  OLD 00Z MDL DATA MOVE
PERSISTENT MSTR/INSTABILITY AXIS THAT WAS OVER THE SIERRA EWRD ORIENTED
N-S OVR CLARK AND MOHAVE.  AM WORRIED ABOUT ALREADY MOIST SOIL CONDS
ACRS FFA AREA...SO HAVE TO MONITOR VERY CAREFULLY.  WL TALK ABT FUTURE
FCST PDS IN THIS AFTN DISCUSSION WHEN NEW DATA COMES IN.  LAS521.
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1241 PM PDT (1241 PM MST) MON JUL 15 1996

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING OVER CLARK COUNTY IN
NEVADA...MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA AND SAN BERNANDINO COUNTY
IN CALIFORNIA...

1...IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...AT 1235 PM PDT LAS VEGAS WEATHER SERVICE
AND EDWARDS AIR FORCE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS
ALONG THE INYO AND SAN BERBARDINO BORDER MOVING NORTH ON CALIFORNIA
STATE ROUTE 127.  THESE SHOWERS WILL INTENSIFY INTO THUNDERSTORMS THIS
EARLY AFTERNOON AS THEY APPROACH THE TOWNS OF TECOPA AND SHOSHONE IN
INYO COUNTY.

2...IN MOHAVE COUNTY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG
THE BILL WILLIAMS RIVER ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE COUNTY.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE WEST.  SOME ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN INDICATED ALONG I-40 ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF
KINGMAN.

3...IN SOUTHERN NEVADA...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED ALONG
THE SHEEP RANGE NEAR THE LINCOLN/CLARK COUNTY BORDER AND IN PORTIONS OF
THE SPRING MOUNTAINS RECREATION AREA IN CLARK COUNTY.  THE STRONGEST
STORMS DETECTED BY LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR WERE IN LINCOLN COUNTY NEAR
CALIENTE.  THIS CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IS SLOWLY MOVING EAST INTO
EATSERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN UTAH.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS
SOUTHERN NEVADA...MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA AND SAN BERNANDINO IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS AFTERNOON.

ANY OF THE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA
...MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA OR SAN BERNANDINO WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF
HEAVY SHOWERS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED WITH THESE STORMS. VISIBILITY MAY BE
REDUCED TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES ON AREA ROADWAYS BY BLOWING DUST OR SAND
EVEN THOUGH THE PARENT SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM IS MILES AWAY.

LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND STATEMENTS FROM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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