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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

February 21, 1998Riverside County, California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 21, 1998, 12:00 PM PST for Riverside County, California. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 1998, 12:00 PM PST (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 21, 1998, 3:00 PM PST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Riverside County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 1998-02-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 1998-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 9:45 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRAmador2 hr
Feb 21, 9:45 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRRiverside2 hr
Feb 21, 12:00 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRAmador3 hr
Feb 21, 2:30 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRSan Mateo, Santa Cruz5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in California, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.