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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 16, 2004Clark County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2004, 3:30 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 2 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
Aug 16, 2004, 3:30 PM PDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2004, 5:30 PM PDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clark County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 72 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2004-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 242 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2004-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KVEF 162230
FFWVEF
NVC003-170030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
330 PM PDT MON AUG 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA

* UNTIL 530 PM PDT

* AT 321 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR SPRING MOUNTAIN RANCH...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO RED
  ROCK CANYON.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF 
WASHES...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS.

LAT...LON 3611 11569 3596 11557 3604 11533 3620 11544

$$

PIERCE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 5:16 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFClark27 days
Aug 16, 1:18 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFLincoln57 min
Aug 16, 2:29 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFClark2 hr
Aug 16, 2:49 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFLincoln41 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 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.