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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Seattle, WA

August 5, 2010Jefferson County, Mason County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2010, 3:28 PM PDT for Jefferson County, Mason County, Washington. 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
Aug 5, 2010, 3:28 PM PDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2010, 5:30 PM PDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Jefferson County, WA, Mason County, WA

The nearest sounding before it

Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2010-08-05Temperature 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, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2010-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
1210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 3:09 AM PDTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsSEW24 hr
Aug 5, 2:50 PM PDTGale WatchSEW12 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Washington, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.