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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 29, 1999Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1999, 5:33 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 42 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 29, 1999, 5:33 PM MST (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1999, 6:15 PM MST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mohave County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 1999-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 201 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 1999-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 29, 2:40 PM MST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 2:40 PM MST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
240 PM PDT SUN AUG 29 1999

SYNOPSIS...STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT AHEAD OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
MOVING TOWARD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WILL CONTINUE TO DRAW UP ABUNDANT
MONSOONAL MOISTURE INTO THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE REGION INTO MONDAY.
THE AIRMASS WILL BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS EVENING AND
OVERNIGHT LEADING TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.
THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE OVER THE WEST COAST ON
MONDAY...RESULTING IN WINDY CONDITIONS AND LOWER TEMPERATURES.
INCREASED SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ON MONDAY WILL SPREAD DRIER AIR ACROSS
THE REGION DURING THE DAY. THE EXCEPTION WILL BE NORTHWEST ARIZONA
WHERE THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN HIGH. ON TUESDAY...ALL
AREAS WILL BE DRY WITH WINDY CONDITIONS IN THE FAR SOUTH.

DISCUSSION...EVERYTHING GOING ABOUT AS EXPECTED WITH RAPID INCREASE
IN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ACROSS THE SOUTH THROUGH THE DAY. PW SOUNDER
SHOWING 2 INCH PLUME UP TO LAKE HAVASU AS OF COUPLE HOURS AGO WITH
1.5 LINE UP TO SRN CLARK AND MOST OF MOHAVE. THIS MUCH HIGHER THAN
MODELS SHOWED BUT NOT UNEXPECTED. LAS VEGAS 88D VAD WIND PROFILE
SHOWING LIGHT SE FLOW UP TO AROUND 500MB WITH EVEN WATER VAPOR SHOT
SHOWING FLOW REVERSAL AND DEVELOPING SE FLOW. IN ADDITION...THE
REMNANTS OF THE INVERTED TROUGH IS STILL MOVING NW IN THIS FLOW AND
IS CURRENTLY MOVING INTO MOHAVE COUNTY AND IS FORECAST TO MOVE TOWARD
CLARK COUNTY AFT 06Z. WILL ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF NW
ARIZONA...CLARK COUNTY IN SRN NV AND EXTREME ERN SAN BERNARDINO
COUNTY IN CA. MODELS NOT SHOWING STRONG DYNAMICS BUT WHAT DOES
DEVELOP WILL ACT ON VERY MOIST AIRMASS. LAPS ANALYSIS SHOWING CAPES
IN EXCESS OF 2500 J/KG OVER SERN SAN BERNARDINO AND EXTREME SWRN
MOHAVE COUNTY WITH LIS OF -4. STRONG CELLS ALREADY ERUPTING IN AND
NEAR THIS AREA AND WILL LIKELY SPREAD AND DEVELOP NORTH THROUGH THE
EVENING AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO BE PUSHED
OUT TOMORROW IN SRN NV AS SW FLOW KICKS IN BUT NW AZ WILL LIKELY
CONTINUE ALL DAY WITH POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER.

OTHERWISE...WINDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE IN THE SHORT TERM WITH
COOLING TEMPERATURES. WINDY WORDING ALREADY MENTIONED FOR TOMORROW
AND WILL BE ADDED TO FAR S ON TUESDAY. EXTENDED LOOKS BUT UK IS MORE
AGGRESSIVE WITH WRN ENERGY IN PERSISTENT PACNW TROUGH AND MAY CREATE
A CHANCE OF SHOWER FOR NWRN ZONES BY DAY 5 ALONG WITH MORE WIND. WILL
JUST KEEP A DRY EXTENDED FOR NOW WITH TEMPERATURES A LITTLE BELOW
SEASONAL NORMS. SKRBAC

LAS...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF THE AREA TONIGHT.
CHECK THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT FOR DETAILS...

The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 6:06 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFClark54 min
Aug 30, 8:20 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningVEFClark3 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.