Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Jul 26, 1996, 9:22 PM PDT (04:22 UTC)

Expired

Jul 26, 1996, 10:15 PM PDT

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS Las Vegas, NV

Area

Whole counties

Counties Clark County, NV, Lincoln County, NV

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KLAS 270424
FFWLAS
NVC017-003-270515-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
922 PM PDT FRI JUL 26 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS NV HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM PDT
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA

  ...SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY

IN SOUTHERN NEVADA

  ...NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY

AT 920 PM PDT...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT AN AREA
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY EAST
OF HIGHWAY 93 AND SOUTH OF CARP.  IN NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY A
CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS INDICATED ALONG INTERSTATE 15 AND HIGHWAY
168.  MOVEMENT OF STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

SOME TOWNS INCLUDED ARE MOAPA...GLENDALE...OVERTON...LOGANDALE AND
MESQUITE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH
...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

PIERCE

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 26, 8:59 PM PDT, 23 minutes earlier.

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
857 PM PDT FRI JUL 26 1996

ACTIVE NITE ACRS FA WITH NO CHANCE TO LOOK AT NEW DATA.  KESX 88D
CONTS TO DETECT TSTMS DEVELOPMENT OVR SRN NV ALNG LEADG EDGE OF BNDRY
FRM ERLIER STORMS OVR MOHAVE CNTY/SW UT.  LATEST ECHOES OVR NE CLARK
STARTING TO SHW BOW SIGNATURE.  DVLPMENT IN LAS VEGAS LOOKS GOOD SO
HAVE INCRD POPS FOR LAS TNGT.   UPDTS TO FIRST PD...OTRHW NO CHGS
MADE.  LAS 2332.  PIERCE

In the hours before

AZZ003-001-270140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
544 PM PDT (544 PM MST) FRI JUL 26 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FAR EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY...

AT 540 PM...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO FAR EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY.  THE LINE RAN FROM THE GRAND
WASH CLIFFS NORTH OF TRUXTON SOUTH TO THE AQUARIUS MOUNTAINS EAST
OF WIKIEUP.  THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST TO
SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
STRONG...GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINS. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF RESTRICTED VISIBILITY...PERHAPS TO
ONLY A FEW FEET...I.N BLOWING DUST.

PIERCE

Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.