Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 27, 2001, 3:12 PM PST for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 63 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
- Feb 27, 2001, 3:12 PM PST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2001, 4:15 PM PST
- In force
- 63 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 23:11 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, 11.2 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 272319
FFWSAN
CAC073-280015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
312 PM PST TUE FEB 27 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CARLSBAD...ENCINITAS...
ESCONDIDO...FALLBROOK...LA MESA...LAKESIDE...OCEANSIDE...POWAY...
SAN DIEGO...SAN MARCOS...SANTEE...VISTA
* UNTIL 415 PM PST
* AT 306 PM PST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN OVER POWAY. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 3321 11738 3267 11714 3289 11684 3319 11668
3343 11684 3347 11727
SMALLThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:20 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 3:57 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 63 min |
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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.