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Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS San Diego, CA

August 7, 2008Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flash flood watch at Aug 7, 2008, 6:36 AM PDT for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California. It took effect at Aug 7, 2008, 7:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2008, 6:36 AM PDT (13:36 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 7, 2008, 7:00 AM PDT
Expired
Aug 7, 2008, 4:52 PM PDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Flood severity
None

Counties Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-07Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2008-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 7, 2:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 10:20 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside3 hr
Aug 7, 10:38 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Diego2 hr
Aug 7, 1:08 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Diego3 hr
Aug 7, 1:34 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in California, 2008Every flash flood watch in 2008

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.