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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 8, 2005, 11:45 PM PST for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 6 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
- Jan 8, 2005, 11:45 PM PST (07:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2005, 5:45 AM PST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County San Bernardino County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS56 KSGX 090741
FFWSGX
CAC071-091345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
1145 PM PST SAT JAN 8 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FOREST FALLS...UPLAND...SAN
BERNARDINO...RIALTO...RANCHO CUCAMONGA...HIGHLAND...FONTANA
* UNTIL 545 AM PST
* AT 1139 PM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM PERSISTENT HEAVY RAIN NORTH
OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA AND SAN BERNARDINO. THE HEAVY RAIN IS
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
CAJON SUMMIT...MUSCOY...WATERMAN CANYON...LAKE
ARROWHEAD... CRESTLINE AND RUNNING SPRINGS.
MUD SLIDES AND ROCK SLIDES ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS RAIN. MUD SLIDES
AND ROCK SLIDES CAN POTENTIALLY TRAP AND KILL PEOPLE CAUGHT IN THEIR
PATH.
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.
LAT...LON 3440 11763 3425 11763 3411 11767 3405 11696
3405 11670 3435 11688
$$
ECCThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 5:47 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 6:00 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 10:02 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:50 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino | 3 hr |
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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.