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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2012, 6:29 PM PDT for Inyo County, California. It was in force for 5 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2012, 6:29 PM PDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 11:14 PM PDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Inyo County, CA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:30 PM PDT | FLASH FLOOD | 11 Wnw Death Valley Jun, CA | CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTS MAJOR FLOODING WITH TWO OCCUPIED VEHICLES STUCK IN FLOODING ALONG STATE ROUTE 190 NEAR DANTES VIEW. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
038 WGUS55 KVEF 040129 FFWVEF CAC027-040430- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0101.120804T0129Z-120804T0430Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 629 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL INYO COUNTY IN EASTERN CALIFORNIA... * UNTIL 930 PM PDT. * AT 619 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF FURNACE CREEK. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STATE ROUTE 190 FROM FURNACE CREEK TO THE INTERSECTION OF DANTES VIEW ROAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON AREA ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOODING IS NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLER. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY OR WALK THROUGH FLOODWATERS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT FLOODING BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG... NWSVEGAS. && LAT...LON 3623 11662 3639 11692 3657 11688 3639 11651 $$ STACHELSKI
4 follow-up statements
124 WGUS75 KVEF 040304 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 804 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 CAC027-040430- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0101.000000T0000Z-120804T0430Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ INYO CA- 804 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM PDT FOR EAST CENTRAL INYO COUNTY... AT 754 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE RAIN BETWEEN DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION AND FURNACE CREEK. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WERE NEARLY STATIONARY OR DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION...STATE ROUTE 190...THE INTERSECTION TO DANTES ROAD AND FURNACE CREEK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON AREA ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOODING IS NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLER. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY OR WALK THROUGH FLOODWATERS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT FLOODING BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG... NWSVEGAS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS EVEN HARDER TO SEE WATER COVERING THE ROADWAY OR IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS. && LAT...LON 3623 11662 3639 11692 3657 11688 3639 11651 $$ JS
250 WGUS55 KVEF 040426 FFWVEF CAC027-040630- /O.EXT.KVEF.FF.W.0101.000000T0000Z-120804T0630Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 926 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL INYO COUNTY IN EASTERN CALIFORNIA... * UNTIL 1130 PM PDT. * AT 910 PM PDT...ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED IN THE WARNED AREA...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED STATE ROUTE 190 AND DANTES VIEW ROAD BY CALIFORNIA LAW ENFORCEMENT. RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE PROBLEMS ALONG STATE ROUTE 190 AND SECONDARY ROADS SOUTH OF FURNACE CREEK THROUGH 1130 PM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STATE ROUTE 190 SOUTH OF FURNACE CREEK...FURNACE CREEK ROAD AND DANTES VIEW ROAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON AREA ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOODING IS NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLER. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY OR WALK THROUGH FLOODWATERS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT FLOODING BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG... NWSVEGAS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS EVEN HARDER TO SEE WATER COVERING THE ROADWAY OR IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS. && LAT...LON 3623 11662 3639 11692 3657 11688 3639 11651 $$ JS
666 WGUS75 KVEF 040500 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1000 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 CAC027-040630- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0101.000000T0000Z-120804T0630Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ INYO CA- 1000 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM PDT FOR EAST CENTRAL INYO COUNTY... AT 944 PM PDT...RUNOFF FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE ISSUES FOR PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 1130 PM. THIS INCLUDES STATE ROUTE 190 SOUTHEAST OF FURNACE CREEK AND SECONDARY ROADS SUCH AS FURNACE CREEK ROAD AND DANTES VIEW ROAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON AREA ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOODING IS NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLER. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY OR WALK THROUGH FLOODWATERS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT FLOODING BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG... NWSVEGAS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS EVEN HARDER TO SEE WATER COVERING THE ROADWAY OR IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS. && LAT...LON 3623 11662 3639 11692 3657 11688 3639 11651 $$ JS
571 WGUS75 KVEF 040614 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1114 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 CAC027-040618- /O.CAN.KVEF.FF.W.0101.000000T0000Z-120804T0630Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ INYO CA- 1114 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL INYO COUNTY... STORMS HAVE DISSIPATED AND RAIN HAS ENDED. THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL REPORT THAT WATER IS SUBSIDING AND STATE ROUTE 190 THROUGH MILE MARKER 134 IS CLEAR. LAT...LON 3623 11662 3639 11692 3657 11688 3639 11651 $$ JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:25 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Inyo | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 7:13 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:42 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.