Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2001, 4:46 PM PDT for Santa Barbara County, California. It was in force for 119 min. 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 7, 2001, 4:46 PM PDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2001, 6:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Santa Barbara County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 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 KLOX 072346 FFWLOX CAC083-080145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 446 PM PDT SAT JUL 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OXNARD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL SANTA BARBARA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 645 PM PDT * AT 445 PM PDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL SANTA BARBARA COUNTY...OR FROM 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF OJAI TO 20 MILES NORTH OF SANTA BARBARA. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL AFFECT THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND CAMPGROUNDS OF EAST CENTRAL SANTA BARBARA COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE 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. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVEm THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN OXNARD. LAT...LON 3484 11945 3478 11973 3464 11979 3466 11946 $$ MOYER
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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 7, 2:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 200 PM PDT SAT JUL 7 2001 NOT MUCH TIME TO WRITE AS WE ARE DILIGENTLY WATCHING NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEMONSTRATING PULSELIKE TENDENCIES. AS EXPECTED THUNDERSTORMS FLARED UP OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND ANTELOPE VALLEY AREAS AND THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS WELL WARRANTED...AND WILL BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 900 PM. STRONGEST STORMS HAVE BEEN OVER NORTHERN VENTURA COUNTY AND THE EASTCENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY. REPORTS HAVE INDICATED ONLY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN BUT NOT ABLE TO REACH THAT MANY PEOPLE IN THE AREAS OF CONCERN. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NO CHANGES TO FORECAST TRENDS AS TODAY WILL BE THE LAST VERY ACTIVE DAY OVER LOCAL AREA. ATMOSPHERE PROGGED TO BEGIN DRYING LATER TONIGHT AND EXPECT ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTORMS OVER MOUNTAINS... MAINLY LA COUNTY ON SUNDAY. EVEN DRYER CONDITIONS FOR 3THE WEEK AHEAD AS FLOW ALOFT TURNS TO A MORE DRY SOUTHWEST DIRECTION. HEIGHTS WILL SLOWLY RISE AS WELL AS FOUR CORNERS HIGH REESTABLISHES ITSELF BY MID WEEK. LAX -000. MCCLUNG .LAX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH (SEE LAXFFALAX).
The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Ventura | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 3:59 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Los Angeles | 61 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in California, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001
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.