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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS San Diego, CA

August 29, 2000Riverside County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2000, 2:00 PM PDT for Riverside County, California. It was in force for 60 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, 2000, 2:00 PM PDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2000, 3:00 PM PDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Riverside County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 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 2000-08-29Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2000-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS56 KSGX 292100
FFWSGX
CAC065-292200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
200 PM PDT TUE AUG 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 300 PM PDT

* AT 200 PM PDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND NEARBY DESERT
  AREA OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF PALM SPRINGS. THE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY...AND WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS
  SUCH AS PALM DESERT.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS COULD ALSO
TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
SAN DIEGO.

$$

LAT...LON 3357 11655 3342 11625 3351 11613 3372 11637

SMALL

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 1:05 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside55 min
Aug 29, 1:53 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego67 min
Aug 29, 3:10 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego65 min
Aug 29, 3:13 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego62 min

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.