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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS San Diego, CA

October 27, 2004Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 27, 2004, 1:52 AM PDT for Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 2004, 1:52 AM PDT (08:52 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 2004, 5:00 AM PDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Orange County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 2004-10-27Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2004-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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 270904
FFWSGX
CAC059-065-071-271200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
152 AM PDT WED OCT 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TEMECULA...RIVERSIDE...              
  PERRIS...NORCO...LAKE ELSINORE...HEMET...CORONA   
  SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA   
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SAN BERNARDINO...RANCHO              
  CUCAMONGA...ONTARIO...MONTCLAIR...FONTANA...COLTON...CHINO 
  ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA 
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TUSTIN...SANTA ANA...SAN JUAN        
  CAPISTRANO...ORANGE...MISSION VIEJO...LAGUNA NIGUEL...ANAHEIM
 
* UNTIL 500 AM PDT

* AT 155 AM PDT...HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED 
ACROSS MUCH OF ORANGE COUNTY...EXTENDING INTO NORTHWEST RIVERSIDE 
COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY...INCLUDING THE BURN 
AREAS. THROUGH 5 AM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL SPREAD SOUTH OVER THE 
RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS. RAINFALL TOTALS ARE APPROACHING 3 INCHES 
AT SANTIAGO PEAK AND ARE AS BETWEEN ONE TO TWO INCHES AT SOME 
COASTAL LOCATIONS IN ORANGE COUNTY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF MINOR TO 
MODERATE ROADWAY FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.   

* HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE BURN AREAS MAY CAUSE FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES. 
IF YOU APPROACH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...TURN AROUND DONT 
DROWN



LAT...LON 3425 11736 3427 11757 3381 11805 3345 11774
      3350 11707 3371 11693 3411 11694

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 11:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino3 hr
Oct 27, 4:07 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego3 hr
Oct 27, 4:50 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside, San Bernardino3 hr
Oct 27, 7:05 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego115 min
Oct 27, 2:54 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino2 hr
Oct 27, 4:58 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino3 hr

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.