Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 182, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2014, 5:22 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2014, 5:22 PM PDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2014, 8:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Clark County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 28 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
- 333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
851
WGUS55 KVEF 270022
FFWVEF
NVC003-270315-
/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0182.140927T0022Z-140927T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
522 PM PDT FRI SEP 26 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA...
* UNTIL 815 PM PDT
* AT 518 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL CLARK
COUNTY...ON THE SOUTHWESTERN SIDE OF THE CARPENTER ONE BURN AREA.
RUNOFF FROM THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL FLOW DOWN TROUT CANYON ROAD TOWARDS
HIGHWAY 160. WATER MAY FLOW ACROSS HIGHWAY 160 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
34 AND THE NYE COUNTY BORDER.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TROUT CANYON ROAD AND HIGHWAY 160.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAIN IS FALLING ON THE CARPENTER ONE BURN AREA. WATER LEVELS
WILL RISE VERY RAPIDLY...LEADING TO MUD AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN AND
DOWNSTREAM OF THE BURN AREA.
&&
LAT...LON 3614 11590 3616 11589 3615 11577 3618 11572
3624 11572 3626 11569 3623 11565 3624 11562
3621 11559 3603 11573
$$
STUMPF1 follow-up statement
282
WGUS75 KVEF 270247
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
747 PM PDT FRI SEP 26 2014
NVC003-270256-
/O.CAN.KVEF.FF.W.0182.000000T0000Z-140927T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CLARK NV-
747 PM PDT FRI SEP 26 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR WEST CENTRAL CLARK
COUNTY...
HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED NORTH OF THE CARPENTER ONE BURN AREA. ALTHOUGH
SOME MINOR RUNOFF MAY STILL OCCUR...THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS
ENDED.
LAT...LON 3614 11590 3616 11589 3615 11577 3618 11572
3624 11572 3626 11569 3623 11565 3624 11562
3621 11559 3603 11573
$$
ASGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 5:32 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:12 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark | 93 min |
| Sep 26, 6:43 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 2 hr |
| Sep 26, 7:31 PM PDT | Areal Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 20 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:15 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:16 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 29 min |
| Sep 26, 10:16 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 11:21 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:59 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 3:27 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark | 6 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.