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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS San Diego, CA

August 14, 2004San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2004, 3:40 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 80 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 14, 2004, 3:40 PM PDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2004, 5:00 PM PDT
In force
80 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 12:00Z on 2004-08-14Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2004-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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 142241
FFWSGX
CAC073-150000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
340 PM PDT SAT AUG 14 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM PDT

* AT 330 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A 
THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF CAMPO. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING 
SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH.

* TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL OCCUR ON I-8 AND BUCKMAN SPRINGS ROAD. IN 
ADDITION HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING IS LIKELY IN AND NEAR BOULEVARD AND 
CAMPO.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

LAT...LON 3284 11636 3279 11657 3256 11651 3262 11626

$$

JAD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 4:30 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside90 min
Aug 14, 11:45 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino75 min
Aug 14, 12:42 PM PDTTornado WarningSGXSan Bernardino33 min
Aug 14, 12:45 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego75 min
Aug 14, 1:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino2 hr
Aug 14, 1:15 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside, San Bernardino105 min
Aug 14, 3:20 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino70 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in California, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.