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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS San Diego, CA

July 6, 2001San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2001, 5:00 PM PDT for San Diego 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
Jul 6, 2001, 5:00 PM PDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2001, 6:00 PM PDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Whole counties

County San Diego County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2001-07-07Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2001-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
1381 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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 070006 CCA
FFWSGX
CAC073-070100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
500 PM PDT FRI JUL 6 2001

CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 600 PM PDT

* AT 454 PM PDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF JULIAN AND 10 MILES WEST OF OCOTILLO
  WELLS...NEARLY STATIONARY AND MOVING VERY SLOWLY NORTH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING UNTIL 600 PM PDT.

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.

$$

WHITLOWE

LAT...LON 3295 11650 3290 11627 3325 11623 3330 11645

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 5:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego30 min
Jul 7, 11:45 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino75 min
Jul 7, 12:50 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino2 hr
Jul 7, 2:25 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside65 min
Jul 7, 2:53 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside, San Bernardino2 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.