Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Sep 2, 1997, 3:03 PM PDT (22:03 UTC)

Expired

Sep 2, 1997, 5:00 PM PDT

In force

117 min

Issued by

NWS Las Vegas, NV

Area

Whole counties

County Inyo County, CA

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
TTAA00 KLAS 022204
FFWLAS
CAC027-071-022300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
303 PM PDT TUE SEP 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN EAST CALIFORNIA
 
   ...CENTRAL INYO COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
 
AT 255 PM...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTEDNING FROM CENTRAL INYO COUNTY SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHWEST SAN
BERNARDINO COUNTY. AT 230 PM...THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED
FLASH FLOODING ALONG CALIFORNIA STATE HIGHWAY 136 BETWEEN LONE PINE AND
STOVEPIPE WELLS IN INYO COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED
OVER NORTHWEST SAN BERNADINO COUNTY BETWEEN BARSTOW AND RIDGECREST.
 
MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEFK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
KOSIER

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 2, 2:07 PM PDT, 56 minutes earlier.

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
205 PM PDT TUE SEP 2 1997

RADAR AND STLT BOTH INDICATE MOST OF FCST AREA CONVECTION-FREE WITH
EXCEPTION OF ERN SLOPES OF SIERRA NEVADA.  SEVERAL FACTORS LIKELY
INHIBITING T-STORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON.  TEMPS AT 21Z STILL
ONLY IN LOWER 80S OVER SRN NV WHICH IS STILL WELL BELOW CONVECTIVE
TEMPS.  RAINFALL FROM LAST NIGHT ALSO LIKELY STABILIZED LOWER
LAYERS TO SOME DEGREE AND CAPPING INVERSION AT 6OO MB ALSO A
FACTOR.  WITH ALL THAT SAID...WILL TRIM PRECIP CHANCE A CATEGORY OR
TWO FOR TONIGHT INTO ISOLD OR SCT.  ALL MDLS SHOW LITTLE CHG FOR
THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH FCST AREA REMAINING UNDER A MOIST SOUTHEAST
FLOW WITH UNSTBL CONDS CONTINUING WITH FCST LI VALUES IN THE 0 TO
-2 CATEGORY.  THEREFORE...WILL CONTINUE BROAD-BRUSH APPROACH WITH
SCT POPS FOR MOST AREAS THROUGH THU.  LONGER RANGE MDLS CONTINUE TO
BRING TROUGH ALONG WEST COAST OVER THE WEEKEND WHICH SHOULD BRING A
DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW THEREBY CUTTING OFF T-STORMS CHANCES.
LAS 2332. KOSIER

SRN NV...NONE
ERN CA...NONE
NW AZ ...NONE

Flash Flood Warnings in California, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.