Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2003, 9:47 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2003, 9:47 PM PDT (04:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2003, 11:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lincoln County, NV
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 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
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 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 WGUS55 KVEF 200452 FFWVEF NVC017-200645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 947 PM PDT TUE AUG 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA * UNTIL 1145 PM PDT * AT 947 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PANACA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. AT 950 PM THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN PIOCHE REPORTED HEAVY RAIN THROUGHOUT THE CALIENTE...PANACA...PIOCHE AREA ALONG HIGHWAY 93. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH HAVE FALLEN IN THIS AREA OVER THE PAST 30 MINUTES AND WITH PONDING ALREADY BEING REPORTED. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF WASHES AND SMALL STREAMS. ADDITIONALLY CAUTION NEEDS TO BE USED ON HIGHWAY 93 AND ALSO STATE ROUTE 319 AS WATER MAY WASH OVER THE ROADS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 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 AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3748 11495 3748 11410 3852 11409 3851 11497 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 5:44 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 8:20 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:25 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:43 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Lincoln | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.