Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2000, 3:10 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 65 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, 3:10 PM PDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2000, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Diego County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS56 KSGX 292209 FFWSGX CAC073-292315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 310 PM PDT TUE AUG 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 415 PM PDT * AT 310 PM PDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND REMOTE RAIN GAGES INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE BORREGO SPRINGS AREA...INCLUDING BORREGO PALM CANYON AND HENDERSON CANYON. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. 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 3301 11646 3301 11613 3340 11609 3341 11654 SMALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 1:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside | 55 min |
| Aug 29, 1:53 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Diego | 67 min |
| Aug 29, 2:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside | 60 min |
| Aug 29, 3:13 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 62 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in California, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.