Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Aug 16, 1996, 3:21 PM PDT (22:21 UTC)

Expired

Aug 16, 1996, 4:30 PM PDT

In force

69 min

Issued by

NWS Las Vegas, NV

Area

Whole counties

County Clark County, NV

000 
TTAA00 KLAS 162223
FFWLAS
NVC003-162330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
321 PM PDT FRI AUG 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTH NEVADA
 
   ...CENTRAL AND EASTERN CLARK COUNTY
 
AT 315 PM PDT...A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM THE
EAST END OF THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY AND WERE DEVELOPING EASTWARD TOWARD
LAS VEGAS BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD AT 10 MPH.
ONE RAIN GUAGE IN HENDERSON NEAR LAKE MEAD DRIVE AND INTERSTATE 515
SHOWED ONE QUARTER INCH OF RAIN IN THE BETWEEN 245 PM AND 315 PDT.
AT MCDONALD RANCH NEAR LAKE MEAD DRIVE AND GREEN VALLEY PARKWAY
WINDS OF 60 MPH WERE REPORTED.
 
THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OF AREA WASHES
AND LOW LYING ROADWAYS.  THE STORMS ARE ALSO LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL...
STRONG WIND GUSTS...REDUCED VISIBILITES AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
THUS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXPANDED AND EXTENDED THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO INCLUDE ALL OF
CENTRAL AND EASTERN CLBARK COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM PDT.
 
PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN CLARK COUNTY SHOULD AVOID
CROSSING FLOODED ROADWAYS AND BE ALERT FOR HAIL...STRONG DAMAGAING
WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
 
SKRBAC
 
 
 
 
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NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 16, 3:09 PM PDT, 12 minutes earlier.

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
300 PM PDT FRI AUG 16 1996

BUSY DEALING WITH SCT STG TO LCLLY SVR TRWS ACRS SRN NEVADA/NW ARIZONA
THIS AFTERNOON.  SEVERAL REPORTS OF HAIL RANGING FROM PEA SIZED TO
GOLFBALL SIZED HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THE STORMS ACRS CLARK COUNTY
NEVADA.  MUCH QUIETER WX ON THE WAY TWD THE END OF THE WEEKEND.  12Z
PROGS IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON BRINGING UPR TROF INTO THE WRN US SAT AND
SUN.  MID LVL MSTR STILL SUFFICIENT ON SAT FOR ISOLD TO WDLY SCT
ACTIVITY.  MOST AREAS SHOULD BE DRY SUN AS SW ALF AND AT THE SFC
STRENGTHENS.  ONLY EXCEPTION WL BE ERN NEVADA ZN 8...WHERE NGM SHOWED
SOME MSTR AND INSTABILITY LAGGING BEHIND.  PER COOR WITH RNO...EXTND PD
LOOKS DRY ACRS NEVADA ZN 9.  MID LVL MSTR LOOKS AS THOUGH IT COULD HANG
BACK INTO NEVADA ZN 8...SO KEPT A CHC OF TRWS THERE THRU THE PD.
LAS 31-0. MATUSIEWICZ

In the hours before

NVZ008-009-162155-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1156 AM PDT FRI AUG 16 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA...

AT 1150 AM...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION
CHARTS SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF CLARK...SOUTHERN NYE...AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN
COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN NEVADA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 40
MILES NORTHEAST OF BEATTY...10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEAN...AND LESS THAN
5 MILES NORTH OF MT. CHARLESTON.  VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED
WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNLPOURS OF RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TEVEVISION STATIONS
FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.

MATUSIEWICZ

30 NW LAS VEGAS MC CARRAN NV   1.75 INCH HAIL         08/16/96   CLARK

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

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