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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1996, 8:17 PM PDT for Clark County, Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1996, 8:17 PM PDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1996, 9:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, NV, Lincoln County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLAS 270323 FFWLAS NVC003-017-270415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 817 PM PDT FRI JUL 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EXTREME SOUTHERN NEVADA ...EASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA ...SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 815 PM PDT...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEAR ELGIN IN SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY TO NEAR MESQUITE IN NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY. A SKYWARN SPOTTER IN MESQUITE REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MPH AT 815 PM PDT. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEAST LINCOLN AND NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY INCLUDING OVERTON...LOGANDALE...THE MOAPA INDIAN RESERVATION AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 93 AND INTERSTATE 15. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. & NEMETH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:17 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jul 26, 8:36 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 69 min |
| Jul 26, 9:22 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 9:22 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 10:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 11:04 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 11:04 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 56 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.