Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Watches in 2006
Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 26, 2006, 10:11 AM PDT for Clark County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada; Inyo County, San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona. It took effect at Jul 26, 2006, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2006, 10:11 AM PDT (17:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 26, 2006, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2006, 8:38 PM PDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Mohave County, AZ, Inyo County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Clark County, NV, Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 26, 3:30 AM PDT, 6 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 3:30 AM PDT, 6 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 3:41 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 4:57 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 5:15 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 24 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Nevada, 2006Flash Flood Watches in California, 2006Flash Flood Watches in Arizona, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.