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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1999, 5:24 PM PDT for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1999, 5:24 PM PDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1999, 7:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County San Bernardino County, CA
The radar
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KVEF 140027 FFWLAS CAC071-140230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 524 PM PDT TUE JUL 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 730 PM PDT * AT 524 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN 29 MILES SOUTH OF SEARLES VALLEY...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTH OF TRONA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY CONTINUING ALONG TRONA AND SEARLES STATION ROADS AS AN INTENSE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES OVER NORTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF WASHES AND NARROW CANYONS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OR TWO OF FLOWING WATER TO WASH MOST CARS AWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. LAT...LON 3578 11761 3523 11762 3535 11661 3569 11661 SKRBAC
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 Jul 13, 3:52 PM PDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:52 PM PDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
350 PM PDT MON JUL 12 1999
SYNOPSIS...A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN OVER MOST OF THE
REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER SOUTHERN
NEVADA WILL HELP TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY
EVENING. DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION THURSDAY...
PUSHING MUCH OF THE MOIST AIR OFF TO THE EAST WITH ONLY ISOLATED
AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION...VORT MAX OVER EXREME SOUTHERN NEVADA TODAY COMBINED WITH
UNSTABLE AND VERY MOIST AIRMASS PROVIDED FAIRLY WIDESPREAD ACTIVITY
OVER CWFA TODAY. SOME AREAS HAVE HAD SOME GOOD BREAKS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON BUT BELIEVE WITH VORT MAX PRESENT AND MOISTURE NOT GOING
ANYWHERE...AGREE WITH ETA MODEL IN KEEPING CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
ALL NIGHT MOST ZONES. ETA ACTUALLY INTENSIFIES VORT MAX AND DEVELOPS
500 MB AND 700 MB LOW OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN NV TONIGHT. THIS SYSTEM
THEN BEGINS TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
AIRMASS STILL MOIST AND UNSTABLE WEDNESDAY BUT DRIER AIR PROGGED TO
START PUSHING INTO WESTERN AND FAR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CWFA. WILL GO
WITH ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE THOSE ZONES AND KEEP SCATTERED REST OF NV
ZONES AND NUMEROUS FOR NW AZ WHICH WILL HAVE BEST DYNAMICS...MOISTURE
AND INSTABILITY. AFTER EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...EXPECT ACTIVITY TO
DIMINISH AS DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW PUSHES IN WEDNESDAY NIGHT BUT
ACTIVITY MAY PERSIST AFTER MIDNIGHT NW AZ. BELIEVE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
MAY NOT FLUSH OUT OF ALL ZONES THURSDAY SO WILL KEEP MENTION OF
AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS NW AZ AND EXTREME SOUTHERN NV. EXTENDED LOOKS
DRY IN WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. SOME SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS INTO
AZ SUNDAY BUT WILL PLAN ON MOISTURE TAKING ANOTHER DAY TO RETURN INTO
NW AZ. TEMPS SHOULD GENERALLY BE A LITTLE WARMER AFTER WEDNESDAY AS
THEY HAVE BEEN WELL BELOW NORMAL MOST AREAS TODAY AND WILL BE AGAIN
WEDNESDAY. JMH
.LAS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR PORTIONS OF SRN NV...
NW AZ...AND SERN CA UNTIL 07Z. REFER TO THE LATEST STATEMENT
FOR DETAILS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:01 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.