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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Las Vegas, NV

February 19, 2005Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 2005, 4:30 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. 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
Feb 19, 2005, 4:30 PM MST (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 2005, 10:30 PM MST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mohave County, AZ

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 271 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2005-02-19Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2005-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 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 192333
FFWVEF
AZC015-200530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
430 PM MST SAT FEB 19 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTHWEST MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA

* UNTIL 1030 PM MST

* AT 418 PM MST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLASH FLOODING ALONG THE BEAVER
  DAM WASH IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MOHAVE COUNTY. THE WASH WAS RUNNING  
  BANKFULL AND THREATENING TWO HOMES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THIS EVENING
  MAY FORCE BEAVER DAM WASH OUT OF ITS BANKS. 

RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND 
STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF 
CREEKS AND STREAMS.

LAT...LON 3684 11403 3691 11392 3699 11390 3699 11403

$$

PIERCE

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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.