Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Las Vegas, NV

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

THUNDERSTORMS BREWING AROUND THE CWA.  THE CAPPED ENVIRONMENT THIS
MORNING REALLY LET GO.  850 THETA-E ORIENTED SE-NW ACRS MOHAVE AND
CLARK REALLY PROVIDED THE UMPH.  LAS SOUNDING WITH 20.5 C THETA-W
AND SLOW MOVING NATURE ALOFT IS PROVIDING SOME LOCALLY HEAVY PRECIP.
THIS THETA-E RDG/MSTR AXIS WKNS AND PULLS EWD TO THE EARN PRTN OF
MOHAVE AND CNTRL SRN UT TMW.  REMNANT MSTR AROUND SRN NV AND MOHVE
COUNTY  TO SPAWN WIDELY SCTD SHWRS TMW.  AS TROF PULLS INTO WRN US
BREEZY CONDS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE AFTN TUE AND WED AS GRADS TIGHTEN
SLIGHTLY.  WED MOST OF  MSTR AND DYNAMICS PULL E OF CWA MAKING FOR
MSTLY SUNNY SKIES.  IN THE XTNDD MOST MODELS PAINT PICTURE OF A DRIER
COOLER SOUTHWEST FLO.  THE EXCEPTION BEING THE AVN WHICH BROADBRUSHES
THE NW AZ AND SRN NV WITH SE FLO.  I WL GO WITH THE EURO...UK...MRF AND
GO DRvY IN THE THROUGHOUT EXTNDD.   LAS31-0.  CORDERO

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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.

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