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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 15, 2004San Bernardino County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2004, 3:07 PM PDT for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 113 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 15, 2004, 3:07 PM PDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2004, 5:00 PM PDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 2004-08-15Temperature 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 2004-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 
WGUS55 KVEF 152208
FFWVEF
CAC071-160000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
307 PM PDT SUN AUG 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 500 PM PDT

* AT 300 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN JOSHUA TREE AND
  TWENTYNINE PALMS ALONG STATE ROUTE 62. THE STORM WAS STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 
  TWENTYNINE PALMS AND JOSHUA TREE.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE 
IN THE WARNED AREA.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3429 11641 3411 11633 3409 11602 3427 11601

$$

ADAIR

The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 6:11 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino34 min
Aug 14, 6:23 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFSan Bernardino28 days
Aug 14, 8:10 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino35 min
Aug 15, 3:16 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFInyo, San Bernardino28 days
Aug 15, 11:04 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino41 min
Aug 15, 11:14 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFSan Bernardino27 days
Aug 15, 12:15 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFInyo, San Bernardino27 days
Aug 15, 1:28 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino47 min
Aug 15, 1:33 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino42 min

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.