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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2012, 4:16 PM PDT for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 19, 2012, 4:16 PM PDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2012, 5:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County San Bernardino County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
142
WGUS55 KVEF 192316
FFWVEF
CAC071-200015-
/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0129.120819T2316Z-120820T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
416 PM PDT SUN AUG 19 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...
* UNTIL 515 PM PDT.
* AT 415 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR JOSHUA TREE...OR 12 MILES
WEST OF TWENTYNINE PALMS. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HIGHWAY 62 IN AND NEAR JOSHUA TREE...ESPECIALLY AT SUNFAIR ROAD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED ON AREA ROADWAYS...AROUND UNDERPASSES...
AND IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND LOW LYING AREAS. FLASH FLOODING IS
NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLER. 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 3408 11638 3420 11638 3420 11616 3412 11616
3412 11626 3408 11627 3408 11637
$$
MORGAN1 follow-up statement
590
WGUS75 KVEF 200012
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
512 PM PDT SUN AUG 19 2012
CAC071-200022-
/O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0129.000000T0000Z-120820T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SAN BERNARDINO CA-
512 PM PDT SUN AUG 19 2012
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM PDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY...
AT 510 PM PDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM OVER HIGHWAY
62 HAD DISSIPATED. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAD BEEN RECEIVED...SO THE
FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3408 11638 3420 11638 3420 11616 3412 11616
3412 11626 3408 11627 3408 11637
$$
MORGANNearby
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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.