Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 12:59 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 61 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
- Sep 6, 1996, 12:59 PM MST (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 2:00 PM MST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mohave County, AZ
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLAS 062002 FFWLAS AZC015-062100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1259 PM PDT (1259 PM MST) FRI SEP 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM PDT (200 PM MST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA ...EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY AT 1257 PM PDT (MST)...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WIKIEUP AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS HIGHWAY 93 APPROXIMATELY 12 MILES NORTH OF WIKIEUP DURING THE NEXT 15 MINUTES OR SO. 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 RAIN S FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. RUNK
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 6, 8:59 AM MST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 8:59 AM MST, 4 hours before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 858 AM PDT FRI SEP 6 1996 PRBLMS W/SUPER COMPUTER BACK E THANKS TO T.S FRAN...SO MDLS DLAD. ALSO LOCAL PRBLM WITH NTRANS SO 12Z RUC UNAVBL. WX WISE...88D DETECTG A FEW SHWRS/TSTMS ALNG NV/AZ BRDR XNTND E INTO NW AZ AHD OF S/WV OVR SRN GRT BASIN THIS MRNG. LAST NGTS MDLS DEPICT SVRL WK IMPULSES WL CONT TO ROTATE THRU TROF LTR THIS AFTN/TNGT AND SAT WHICH AGN COULD ENHANCE CONVECTION OVR ERN HLF OF CWA WHERE LOW LVL MSTR WL RMN PLENTIFUL. FCST WORDED THAT WAY ATTM AND ONLY MINOR CHGS MADE. LAS 111. PIERCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 12:26 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 64 min |
| Sep 6, 12:59 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 61 min |
| Sep 6, 2:06 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 69 min |
| Sep 6, 2:06 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 69 min |
| Sep 6, 3:18 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 3:18 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 4:17 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 4:17 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 58 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.