Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 22, 2004, 12:06 AM PST for San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California. It was in force for 203 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2004, 12:06 AM PST (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2004, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 203 days
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:10 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 220813 CCA FFWSGX CAC071-221100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED ...CORRECTION TO CODING... FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1206 AM PST SUN FEB 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... THE BURN AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 300 AM PST * AT 1205 AM HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED IN THE LYTLE CREEK AREA. THE RAIN WAS FALLING AT A RATE OF ALMOST .40 INCHES IN 15 MINUTES. THIS HEAVY RAIN CAN CAUSE FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES ACROSS THE BURN AREAS OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. MORE HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. MUD SLIDES AND ROCK SLIDES ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. MUD SLIDES AND ROCK SLIDES CAN POTENTIALLY TRAP AND KILL PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THEIR PATH. MUD SLIDES CAN ALSO CAUSE FLOODING WHERE RUNOFF IS RESTRICTED OR BLOCKED. RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN AND BELOW RECENTLY BURNED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO HEAVY MUD AND DEBRIS FLOWS WHICH MAY BLOCK ROADS AND CULVERTS. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FLOODING AND PROPERTY LOSS COULD RESULT IN AREAS WHERE RUNOFF IS RESTRICTED OR BLOCKED. 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. $$ PURPURA LAT...LON 3401 11768 3410 11702 3451 11688 3444 11761
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS56 KSGX 112358 FFWSGX CAC073-120100- /X.NEW.KSGX.FF.W.0013.040911T2356Z-040912T0100Z/ /X.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 456 PM PDT SAT SEP 11 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 600 PM PDT * AT 448 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES WEST OF OCOTILLO WELLS TO BORREGO SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR... BORREGO PALM CANYON THROUGH 545 PM. BORREGO SPRINGS THROUGH 600 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3342 11652 3302 11638 3310 11609 3343 11610 $$ MAXWELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:00 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 203 days |
| Feb 22, 6:00 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino | 203 days |
| Feb 22, 8:00 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:00 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:00 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Diego | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 1:49 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside, San Diego | 238 days |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.