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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS San Diego, CA

February 14, 2008San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 2008, 5:04 PM PST for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 86 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
Feb 14, 2008, 5:04 PM PST (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Feb 14, 2008, 6:30 PM PST
In force
86 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2008-02-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2008-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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 
WGUS56 KSGX 150117
FFWSGX
CAC073-150230-
/O.NEW.KSGX.FF.W.0021.080215T0104Z-080215T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
504 PM PST THU FEB 14 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EL CAJON...

* UNTIL 630 PM PST

* AT 505 PM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA.

AT 505 PM PST...THE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ABOUT 9 
MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANTEE...OR 6 MILES WEST OF LA MESA...AND WAS 
NEARLY STATIONARY. ACCUMULATING HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORM THAT MAY CLOG SOME DRAINS. 

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. 
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE 
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS 
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY 
AUTOMOBILE.

LAT...LON 3280 11701 3271 11722 3291 11722 3307 11675
      3282 11671 3268 11680
TIME...MOT...LOC 0104Z 213DEG 12KT 3283 11710

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SMALL

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 11:56 AM PSTFrost AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego21 hr
Feb 15, 1:00 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisorySGXSan Diego45 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.