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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS San Diego, CA

July 24, 2006Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood watch at Jul 24, 2006, 8:19 AM PDT for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California. It took effect at Jul 24, 2006, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 2006, 8:19 AM PDT (15:19 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 24, 2006, 12:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jul 24, 2006, 6:34 PM PDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Flood severity
None

Counties Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 2006-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 645 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, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2006-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
645 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-760 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 24, 2:20 AM PDT, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:20 AM PDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 1:16 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside, San Bernardino3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in California, 2006Every flash flood watch in 2006

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.