Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 4, 2003, 1:06 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 84 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
- Sep 4, 2003, 1:06 PM PDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2003, 2:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 84 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 12:00Z, 8.1 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -789 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS56 KSGX 042010 FFWSGX CAC073-042130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 106 PM PDT THU SEP 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... THE MOUNTAINS IN CENTRAL SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 230 PM PDT * AT 1259 PM PDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR CUYAMACA PEAK...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF JULIAN. THE STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY AND LIKELY CONTAINS LARGE HAIL. 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. $$ LAT...LON 3293 11666 3281 11656 3278 11654 3297 11658
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 12:40 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 50 min |
| Sep 4, 1:17 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside | 88 min |
| Sep 4, 1:49 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 71 min |
| Sep 4, 2:07 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 53 min |
| Sep 4, 2:08 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 37 min |
| Sep 4, 2:09 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 81 min |
| Sep 4, 2:24 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Diego | 96 min |
| Sep 4, 2:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside | 90 min |
| Sep 4, 3:22 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 23 min |
| Sep 4, 3:46 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 29 min |
| Sep 4, 4:04 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Diego | 116 min |
| Sep 4, 4:15 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 45 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in California, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.