Alert archive / Arizona / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this red flag warning at Jun 27, 2006, 8:31 AM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It took effect at Jun 27, 2006, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2006, 8:31 AM MST (15:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2006, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2006, 10:00 PM MST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
County Mohave County, AZ
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS85 KVEF 271531 RFWVEF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 831 AM PDT TUE JUN 27 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 10 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY FOR DRY LIGHTNING... AZZ102-280500- /O.NEW.KVEF.FW.W.0013.060627T1900Z-060628T0500Z/ NORTHWEST DESERTS-NORTHWEST PLATEAU- 831 AM MST TUE JUN 27 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 10 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY FOR DRY LIGHTNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 10 PM MST THIS EVENING. A FAIRLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY MAY PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DRY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS85 KVEF 272234 RFWVEF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 332 PM PDT TUE JUN 27 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY FOR DRY LIGHTNING... AZZ102-280500- /O.CON.KVEF.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060628T0500Z/ NORTHWEST DESERTS-NORTHWEST PLATEAU- 332 PM MST TUE JUN 27 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY FOR DRY LIGHTNING... A FAIRLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN DRY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS85 KVEF 280449 RFWVEF RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 949 PM PDT TUE JUN 27 2006 AZZ102-280600- /O.EXP.KVEF.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-060628T0500Z/ NORTHWEST DESERTS-NORTHWEST PLATEAU- 949 PM MST TUE JUN 27 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM MST THIS EVENING. MOST THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WARNING AREA PRODUCED RAIN TODAY...AND DRY LIGHTNING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 10 PM. $$ MORGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:13 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 4:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 43 min |
Nearby
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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.