Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2012, 5:23 PM PDT for Inyo County, California. It was in force for 112 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 2, 2012, 5:23 PM PDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2012, 7:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Inyo County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
507 WGUS55 KVEF 030023 FFWVEF CAC027-030215- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0093.120803T0023Z-120803T0215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 523 PM PDT THU AUG 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL INYO COUNTY IN EASTERN CALIFORNIA... * UNTIL 715 PM PDT. * AT 520 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR KEELER...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONE PINE. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...KEELER...AND PORTIONS OF STATE ROUTE 136 BETWEEN THE STATER ROUTE 190 JUNCTION AND NORTH TO LONE PINE. MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL INYO COUNTY.. 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 3643 11791 3656 11798 3664 11786 3652 11776 $$ KENNEDY
3 follow-up statements
101 WGUS55 KVEF 030026 CCA FFWVEF CAC027-030215- /O.COR.KVEF.FF.W.0093.120803T0023Z-120803T0215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 523 PM PDT THU AUG 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL INYO COUNTY IN EASTERN CALIFORNIA... * UNTIL 715 PM PDT. * AT 520 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR KEELER...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONE PINE ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF STATE ROUTE 136. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...KEELER...AND PORTIONS OF STATE ROUTE 136 BETWEEN THE 190 JUNCTION AND NORTH TO LONE PINE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON AREA ROADWAYS. FLASH FLOODING IS NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLER. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROADWAY OR WALK THROUGH FLOODWATERS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT FLOODING BY POSTING YOUR REPORT TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE...OR BY USING THE TWITTER HASHTAG... NWSVEGAS. && LAT...LON 3643 11791 3656 11798 3664 11786 3652 11776 $$ KENNEDY
646 WGUS75 KVEF 030057 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 557 PM PDT THU AUG 2 2012 CAC027-030215- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0093.000000T0000Z-120803T0215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ INYO CA- 557 PM PDT THU AUG 2 2012 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM PDT FOR CENTRAL INYO COUNTY... LATEST RADAR IMAGERY INDICATES THAT HEAVY RAIN HAS LARGELY ENDED EAST OF STATE ROUTE 135 FROM KEELER NORTH TO LONE PINE...HOWEVER...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY STILL OCCURRING ALONG PORTIONS OF 136 AS THE HEAVY RAIN THAT FELL OVER THE MOUNTAINS EAST OF THE ROAD CONTINUES TO RUNOFF TOWARDS THE ROADWAY. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...KEELER...AND PORTIONS OF STATE ROUTE 136 BETWEEN THE 190 JUNCTION AND NORTH TO LONE PINE. 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 3643 11791 3656 11798 3664 11786 3652 11776 $$ KENNEDY
455 WGUS75 KVEF 030207 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 707 PM PDT THU AUG 2 2012 CAC027-030215- /O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0093.000000T0000Z-120803T0215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ INYO CA- 707 PM PDT THU AUG 2 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM PDT FOR CENTRAL INYO COUNTY... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR KEELER...AND PORTIONS OF STATE ROUTE 136 BETWEEN THE ROUTE 190 JUNCTION AND NORTH TO LONE PINE WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3643 11791 3656 11798 3664 11786 3652 11776 $$ KENNEDY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:44 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.