Alert archive / Arizona / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2005, 9:34 AM MST for Mohave County, Arizona; Clark County, Nevada. 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
- Aug 9, 2005, 9:34 AM MST (16:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2005, 12:30 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Mohave County, AZ, Clark County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 695 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KVEF 091637 FFWVEF AZC015-NVC003-091930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 934 AM PDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA * UNTIL 1230 PM PDT(1230 PM MST) * AT 924 AM PDT(924 AM MST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE CALIFORNIA BORDER WEST OF SEARCHLIGHT OVER TO THE COTTONWOOD COVE AREA ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CAL NEV ARI SEARCHLIGHT AND COTTONWOOD COVE AND HIGHWAYS 164 AND 95. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3570 11446 3560 11534 3512 11475 3516 11437 $$ JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 5:21 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 11:37 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 12:53 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 1:28 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 11:01 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 119 min |
| Aug 9, 11:05 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark, Nye | 115 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arizona, 2005Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.