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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 24, 2007Clark County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2007, 3:27 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 24, 2007, 3:27 PM PDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2007, 5:30 PM PDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Clark County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2007-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2007-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 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 242229
FFWVEF
NVC003-250030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
327 PM PDT TUE JUL 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA...

* UNTIL 530 PM PDT.

* AT 318 PM PDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 
DEVELOPING NEAR SPRING MOUNTAIN RANCH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO 
AFFECT THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY AS IT MOVES 
NORTH AT AROUND 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...RED ROCK CANYON...SPRING 
MOUNTAIN RANCH...SUMMERLIN AND THE LAKES.

LAT...LON 3606 11547 3603 11526 3629 11524 3634 11557

$$
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1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS75 KVEF 242310
FFSVEF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
405 PM PDT TUE JUL 24 2007

NVC003-250030-
CLARK NV-
405 PM PDT TUE JUL 24 2007

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM PDT FOR
CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY...

AT 345 PM PDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM HAD PRODUCED 
ALMOST A HALF-INCH OF RAIN IN 10 MINUTES WITH CURB-HIGH RUNOFF NEAR 
HUALAPAI AND PATRICK AVENUES. A HALF-INCH WAS ALSO RECORDED AT TWO 
GAGES ALONG BLUE DIAMOND RIDGE AND A GAGE ON KYLE CANYON ROAD SHOWS 
0.79 INCHES.  

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF WASHES...
DRAINAGE AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. WHEN
ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT
DROWN.

LAT...LON 3606 11547 3603 11526 3629 11524 3634 11557

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 9:01 AM PDTFlash Flood WatchVEFClark, Lincoln, Nye13 hr
Jul 24, 3:44 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFClark2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.