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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

June 27, 2006Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2006, 6:24 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2006, 6:24 PM MST (01:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2006, 7:30 PM MST
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mohave County, AZ

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 2006-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2006-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 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 280125
FFWVEF
AZC015-280330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
624 PM MST TUE JUN 27 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM MST.

* AT 621 PM MST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING 
  FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE PEACOCK MOUNTAINS. THIS STORM WAS 
  MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH.

* THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT ROUTE 66 BETWEEN 
  VALENTINE AND PEACH SPRINGS.

IN DESERT TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES.

LAT...LON 3554 11375 3554 11353 3572 11353 3572 11375

$$

MORGAN

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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.