Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Watches in 2007
Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood watch at Sep 1, 2007, 10:15 AM PDT for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 2007, 10:15 AM PDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2007, 5:49 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 808 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 1, 9:00 AM PDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 9:00 AM PDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 900 AM PDT SAT SEP 1 2007 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE OVER ARIZONA WILL BRING HOT HUMID WEATHER THROUGH LABOR DAY. MOISTURE IN SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCAL FLOODING. COOLER AND LESS HUMID WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES... SO FAR THE MORNING IS QUIET UNDER MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES...BUT THE ATMOSPHERE IS READY FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THE 12Z NKX SOUNDING IS QUITE UNSTABLE...EVEN MORE SO THAN IT WAS YESTERDAY...WHILE MOISTURE IS SLIGHTLY LESS. SOME TSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVE AT LEAST IN THE MTNS WITH MORE ISOLATED STORMS IN THE DESERT. EASTERLY FLOW IS ENOUGH TO MOVE A FEW OF THOSE TSTORMS INTO THE INLAND VALLEYS...AND THE MOVEMENT OF TSTORMS WILL HELP TO DECREASE THE CHANCE OF FLASH FLOODING. THE FLOW...THE DYNAMICS AND THE MOISTURE LOOK NEARLY IDENTICAL TODAY THROUGH THE HOLIDAY MON. THE HEAT LOOKS THE SAME TOO EXCEPT FOR PERHAPS A FEW DEGREES OF COOLING ON MON. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE COMING OUT OF THE NORTHWEST TUE AND WED IS LOOKING MORE CONSISTENT LATELY ON THE STRENGTH AND THE TIMING. THIS WILL BRING A COOLING TREND AND MORE COASTAL CLOUDS. AS THE TROUGH PASSES...JUST A TOUCH OF OFFSHORE FLOW DEVELOPS WED AND THU MORNINGS. NOT ENOUGH FOR REALLY STRONG OFFSHORE WINDS...BUT MAYBE ENOUGH TO DRY OUT THE AIR AND INCREASE THE FIRE POTENTIAL BRIEFLY. ANOTHER FEATURE TO WATCH IS THE MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF HENRIETTE. EXTENDED MODELS SHOW MOST OF THAT MOISTURE GOING INTO AZ ON THU AND FRI NEXT WEEK...BUT ENOUGH TO CLIP THE SOUTHEAST PART OF OUR REGION AND BRING SHOWERS AND/OR TSTORMS. && .AVIATION... 011430..TWO MAIN PROBLEMS FOR THE DAY CONTINUE TO BE THE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT VALLEY AND DESERT AREAS AND THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES AT THE AREA AIRPORTS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS BY LATE MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. BASES SHOULD BE AT OR ABOVE FL080 WITH TOPS TO FL450 AT TIMES. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD END BY SUNSET BUT MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE COASTAL EDDY THAT WAS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVERNIGHT DID NOT DEVELOP SO MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES AT KSAN AND KSNA COULD REACH AROUND 30 TO 32 DEGREES C AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT NEAR 43 DEGREES AT KONT AND BETWEEN 45 TO 47 DEGREES AT KPSP. THE MARINE LAYER REMAINS VERY SHALLOW SO MARINE LAYER STRATUS/FOG IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE A FACTOR AT ANY OF THE COASTAL AIRPORTS THROUGH SUNDAY. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING FROM 10 AM TO 7 PM TODAY AND SUNDAY FOR INLAND AREAS...SEE LAXNPWSGX. && PUBLIC...MM AVIATION/MARINE...HORTON NWS ON THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/SANDIEGO
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 3:40 AM PDT, 6 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 8:16 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 22 hr |
| Sep 1, 3:25 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 40 hr |
| Sep 1, 12:52 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside, San Diego | 4 hr |
| Sep 1, 1:18 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 4 hr |
| Sep 1, 1:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 63 min |
| Sep 1, 2:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Riverside | 60 min |
| Sep 1, 3:07 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside | 3 hr |
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.