Alert archive / California / Flood Watches in 2014
Flood Watch 2, NWS Sacramento, CA
NWS Sacramento, CA issued this flood watch at Dec 8, 2014, 10:39 AM PST for 23 counties in California. It took effect at Dec 10, 2014, 7:00 PM PST. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 8, 2014, 10:39 AM PST (18:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 10, 2014, 7:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 11, 2014, 9:57 PM PST
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Sacramento, CA
- Flood severity
- None
All 23 counties
Alpine County, CA, Amador County, CA, Butte County, CA, Calaveras County, CA, Colusa County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Glenn County, CA, Lake County, CA, Lassen County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Sacramento County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA, Shasta County, CA, Sierra County, CA, Solano County, CA, Stanislaus County, CA, Sutter County, CA, Tehama County, CA, Tuolumne County, CA, Yolo County, CA, Yuba County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 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
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Dec 8, 4:34 AM PST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 4:34 AM PST, 6 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 8:56 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | STO | 13 hr | |
| Dec 8, 3:30 AM PST | High Wind Watch | STO | 34 hr | |
| Dec 8, 3:30 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | STO | 34 hr |
Nearby
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.