Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Sep 6, 1996, 4:17 PM MST (23:17 UTC)

Expired

Sep 6, 1996, 5:15 PM MST

In force

58 min

Issued by

NWS Las Vegas, NV

Area

Whole counties

Counties Mohave County, AZ, Clark County, NV

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KLAS 062326 COR
FFWLAS
AZC015-NVC003-070015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR LOCATIONS...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
417 PM PDT (417 PM MST) FRI SEP 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM PDT (515 PM MST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA

   ...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY


IN SOUTH NEVADA

   ...EXTREME EASTERN CLARK COUNTY
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR CENTRAL MOHAVE
COUNTY AZ.

AT 415 PM PDT (MST)...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTH COVE THROUGH KINGMAN TO
NEAR YUCCA.  THE LINE WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST WHILE INDIVIDUAL
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH.

THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN KINGMAN REPORTED MARBLE-SIZED HAIL...STRONG
WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING AT 410 PM.  SOME POWER LINES
WERE DOWN AND SEVERAL WASHES WERE RUNNING AS WELL.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY
RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  WASHES MAY CONTINUE TO FLOW FOR
WELL OVER AN HOUR AFTER THUNDERSTORMS <PASS...AND CAN FILL WITH
WATER RAPIDLY AT A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE FROM THE PARENT STORM.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE INTO LOW LYING AREAS COVERED WITH WATER.

RUNK

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 6, 2:50 PM MST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
250 AM PDT FRI SEP 6 1996

OUTFLOW BNDRY FRM ERLY MRNG CONVECTION LYING ACRS EXTRM ERN CA/SRN
NV AND NW AZ THS AFTN ACTING AS MAIN FOCUSING AREA FOR TSTMS ATTM.
88D INDICATED TRAINING ECHOES IN ERLY STORMS OVR AZ ZN 3...SO A FFA
WAS ISSUED FOR THE NW DSRTS TIL 9 PM.  TSTMS ALNG CO RVR SHUD MOVE
INTO FFA RGN LTR THIS AFTN/EVNG.  OTHW SOM CU OVR S CNTRL NV WITH
TSTMS ALNG THE UT BRDR.  DATA DLAD TDA AND LOOKING AT LAST NGTS
DATA PERSISTENCE BEST BET.  MDLS INSIST LOW LVL TO RMN IN PLACE
ACRS XTRM SRN NV/NW AZ SO WL CONT MENTION OF SHWRS/TSTMS OVR
WEEKEND.  DRIER/STBL AIRMASS WL BE IN PLACE ACRS S C,NTRL NV.
HGTS/THKN RISE SLOLY FOR WRMR TEMPS ON SUN.  LAS 1110.  PIERCE

Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 1996Flash 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.