Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Jul 14, 1996, 4:21 PM MST (23:21 UTC)

Expired

Jul 14, 1996, 6:30 PM MST

In force

2 hr

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 23:24 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.

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TTAA00 KLAS 142322
FFWLAS
AZC015-NVC003-150130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
421 PM PDT (421 PM MST) SUN JUL 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM PDT (630 PM MST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN MOHAVE COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTH NEVADA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY
 
AT 410 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER DOPPLER RADAR AND NATIONAL
PARK SERVICE PERSONNEL REPORTED FLASH FLOODING CONTINUING
ACROSS NORTHWEST MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA.  STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO BUILDING RAPIDLY ALONG THE NORTHEAST
CLARK/NORTHWEST MOHAVE COUNTY BORDER.
 
FLASH FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED FROM GREGGS HIDEOUT
TO THE HUALAPAI WASH.  EVACUATIONS WERE UNDERWAY IN THAT AREA.
THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THIS FLASH FLOODING REMAINED
NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE WHITE HILLS AND GRAND WASH CLIFFS
AREA.  SINCE 400 PM PDT (400 PM MST) THOUGH...THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE BEEN INCREASING ACROSS ALL OF NORTHWEST MOHAVE AND
NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY.  MAJOR FLASH FLOODING MAY LIKELY
SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS OF NORTHWEST MOHAVE COUNTY AND NEAR THE
LAKE MEAD RECREATION AREA IN NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY.
 
THIS SITUATION SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY.  THIS IS AN
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING SITUATION.  AVOID TRAVEL
ACROSS NORTHWEST MOHAVE COUNTY AND NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY
IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.  BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS
AND FLOWING WASHES.  DO NOT CAMP OR PARK NEARY ANY WASHES
OR LOW LYING AREAS.  REMEMBER FLASH FLOODS KILL!!!  REPEATING
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD
AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWEST MOHAVE COUNTY
IN ARIZONA AND NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY IN NEVADA.  FLASH
FLOODING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL
AND STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE ALL LIKELY WITH THEStE STORMS.
 
SKRBAC
 
 
 
 
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NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 14, 2:24 PM MST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
225 PM PDT SUN JUL 14 1996

IT HAS BEEN A REALLY BUSY AFTERNOON ACRS THE CWA.  THE S/W OVR SAN
PROVIDED SOME CYCLONIC FLOW FOR AIDING THIS GULF SURGE.  PER COOR WITH
LAX...NICE COUPLET ON BOTH SIDES OF THE NV/CA BDR ALONG WITH THETA-E/H8
DP AXIS REALLY HELP BLOW UP THESE STORMS.  POSSIBLE SEE SOME ACTIVITY
OVR THE LAS VALLEY ITSELF THIS EVE WITH SURGE FROM OUTFLOW FROM
MCCOLLOUGH RANGE JUST SW OF LAS. THETA-E RDG REMAINS IN PLACE TMW WHICH
WL AID IN FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AGAIN OVR SRN NV...SRN CA AND NW AZ. SOME
DRYG TO OCCUR NW OF TPH WITH AID OF NRN CA S/W COMING IN.  PROBLY SEE
SOME LOCAL DIURNAL AFTN BREEZES WITH ENTRANCE OF TROF IN NRN PARTS OF
CWA.  OTRW SLOW DRYING IN LWR LVLS W TO E THROUGH EXNTDD.  LAS3121.
CORDERO

In the hours before

NVZ008-009-AZZ002-003-CAZ019-142015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1117 AM PDT (1117 AM MST) SUN JUL 14 1996

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING OVER CLARK COUNTY IN
NEVADA...SOUTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA AND SAN BERNANDINO COUNTY
IN CALIFORNIA...

1...IN EASTERN SAN BERNANDINO...AT 11 AM PDT LAS VEGAS WEATHER SERVICE
AND EDWARDS AIR FORCE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS LIGHT SHOWERS
ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40.  SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM NEEDLES IN THE
COLORADO RIVER VALLEY TO JUST EAST OF THE BARSTOW-DAGGET AREA AND OVER
THE TWENTY NINE PALMS MARINE BASE.

2...IN MOHAVE COUNTY...LIGHT SHOWERS WERE EXTENDING FROM ALAMO LAKE TO
JUST NORTH OF PARKER DAM ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE COUNTY.

3...IN CLARK COUNTY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED ALONG THE
SHEEP RANGE NEAR THE LINCOLN/CLARK COUNTY BORDER AND IN PORTIONS OF THE
SPRING MOUNTAINS RECREATION AREA.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS
SOUTHERN NEVADA...MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA AND SAN BERNANDINO IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS AFTERNOON.

ANY OF THE SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA
...MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA OR SAN BERNANDINO WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF
HEAVY SHOWERS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED WITH THESE STORMS. VISIBILITY MAY BE
REDUCED TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES ON AREA ROADWAYS. PEOPLE TRAVELLING ALONG
I-15 NEAR THE CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA BORDER AND ALONG I-40 IN SAN
BERNANDINO SHOULD KEEP AN EXTRA CAUTIOUS EYE ON APPROACHING STORMS.
SOMETIMES THE PARENT SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM CAN BE MILES AWAY.

LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND STATEMENT|S FROM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

CORDERO

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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.