Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1997, 2:11 PM PDT for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 8, 1997, 2:11 PM PDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1997, 3:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Bernardino County, CA
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLAS 082112 FFWLAS CAC071-082215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 211 PM PDT FRI AUG 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN EAST CALIFORNIA ...SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AT 210 PM...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN JOSHUA TREE AND TWENTYNINE PALMS CALIFORNIA. A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH NEAR TWENTYNINE PALMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. KOSIER
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 Aug 8, 8:23 AM PDT, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 8:23 AM PDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 820 AM PDT FRI AUG 8 1997 VSBL STLT AND SFC OBS INDC PLENTY OF MID LVL INSTABILITY AROUND WITH ACCAS CLDS AND EVEN SOME ISOLD -SHRA/-TSRA IN CA VCNTY KERN AND INYO COUNTIES. MEANWHILE...SHALLOW LOW LVL MSTR CONTS TO CREEP NWD UP CO RVR INTO SRN NV WITH SOME INCR IN DEWPOINTS NOTED THIS AM LAS/LSV. YUM VWP STILL INCDS ONLY A SHALLOW SLY FLOW THRU 3 KFT SO NO STRONG SURGE NOTED. DRA SOUNDING MARGINALLY UNSTABLE WITH AVG LAYER DATA SFC-700 RIPE FOR TSTM FORMATION. NO DOUBT THAT TSTMS WILL POP TDA BUT VRY DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT WHERE. UPR HIGH HAS SHIFTED SEWD AND WILL CONT TO MOVE INTO AZ TDA. THIS WILL PREVENT A REPEAT OF YSTDYS TSTMS IN AZ...WHERE THE NELY FLOW ALLOWED STORMS TO MOVE OFF HIGHER TERRAIN INTO MSTR RICH CO RVR VALLEY. 12Z RUC INDCS WEAK 7H TROF ACRS SCNTRL NV AND FCSTS IT TO MOVE SEWD INTO SRN NV BY MAX HEATING. MESO ETA ALSO CONTS TO ADVERTISE MSTR CONVERGENCE ALONG AN AXIS ROUGHLY FRM TPH TO IGM. LOOKS THE COMBO OF THE 7H TROF AND LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE WILL MAKE FOR AN ACTIVE TSTM DAY OVR SCNTRL/SRN NV ZONES. PLANNING ON SOME MINOR UPDATES TO UP POPS SLGTLY AND REWORD/REGROUP FCST. LAS 211 NEMETH SRN NV...NONE ERN CA...NONE NW AZ ...NONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:28 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 6:33 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 117 min |
| Aug 7, 6:33 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 117 min |
| Aug 8, 2:11 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 64 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.