Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2012, 1:22 PM PDT for Inyo County, California. It was in force for 113 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
- Jul 13, 2012, 1:22 PM PDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2012, 3:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Inyo County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
146 WGUS55 KVEF 132022 FFWVEF CAC027-132215- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0002.120713T2022Z-120713T2215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 122 PM PDT FRI JUL 13 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL INYO COUNTY IN EASTERN CALIFORNIA... * UNTIL 315 PM PDT. * AT 115 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL INYO COUNTY IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK...OR 21 MILES SOUTH OF STOVEPIPE WELLS. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILDROSE ROAD ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF PANAMINT SPRINGS 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 3637 11727 3639 11711 3619 11704 3618 11724 $$ JA
2 follow-up statements
981
WGUS75 KVEF 132122
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
222 PM PDT FRI JUL 13 2012
CAC027-132215-
/O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120713T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
INYO CA-
222 PM PDT FRI JUL 13 2012
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM PDT FOR
CENTRAL INYO COUNTY...
AT 216 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM HAS
BEEN STATIONARY AND WAS LOCATED IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ABOUT
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STOVEPIPE WELLS OVER WILDROSE ROAD AND WAS
EXPANDED NORTHWARD ACROSS STATE ROUTE 190 NEAR TOWNE PASS. DOPPLER
RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER ONE INCH AN HOUR WITH THIS
STORM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON
AREA ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOODING IS NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLER. TO ESCAPE
RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED
ROADWAY OR WALK THROUGH FLOODWATERS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN!
REPORT FLOODING BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG...
NWSVEGAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3637 11727 3639 11713 3631 11708 3621 11705
3618 11718 3618 11724
$$
JA446
WGUS75 KVEF 132212
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
312 PM PDT FRI JUL 13 2012
CAC027-132220-
/O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120713T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
INYO CA-
312 PM PDT FRI JUL 13 2012
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 315 PM PDT FOR CENTRAL INYO
COUNTY...
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING ORIGINALLY FOR WILD ROSE ROAD IN DEATH
VALLEY NATIONAL PARK WAS EXPANDED TO INCLUDE HIGHWAY 190 NEAR TOWNE
PASS AND EXTENDED UNTIL 5 PM PDT.
LAT...LON 3637 11727 3639 11713 3631 11708 3621 11705
3618 11718 3618 11724
$$
JAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:03 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | San Bernardino | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 7:03 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | San Bernardino | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 2:55 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:51 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 114 min |
| Jul 13, 4:09 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:16 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 119 min |
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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.