Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 2014
Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2014, 2:21 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 114 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 4, 2014, 2:21 PM PDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2014, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Nye County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 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.
999 WGUS55 KVEF 042121 FFWVEF NVC023-042315- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0082.140804T2121Z-140804T2315Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 221 PM PDT MON AUG 4 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL NYE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA... * UNTIL 415 PM PDT * AT 212 PM PDT...NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT ROADS WERE BEING CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING AND DEBRIS ACROSS THEM IN AREA 6 ON THE NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE. OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA AND DRY LAKE BEDS HAVE FILLED UP WITH WATER. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE INCLUDING AREA 6 PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON ROADS. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROAD OR ENTER A FLOOD CHANNEL. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT FLOODING TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VIA FACEBOOK OR TWITTER. && LAT...LON 3700 11614 3700 11590 3669 11590 3669 11614 $$ STACHELSKI
1 follow-up statement
054 WGUS75 KVEF 042155 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 255 PM PDT MON AUG 4 2014 NVC023-042315- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0082.000000T0000Z-140804T2315Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ NYE NV- 255 PM PDT MON AUG 4 2014 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM PDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NYE COUNTY... AT 251 PM PDT...NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT ROADS WERE BEING CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING AND DEBRIS ACROSS THEM IN AREA 6 ON THE NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE. OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA AND DRY LAKE BEDS HAVE FILLED UP WITH WATER. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE INCLUDING AREA 6 PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED IN WASHES...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND ON ROADS. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROAD OR ENTER A FLOOD CHANNEL. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT FLOODING TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VIA FACEBOOK OR TWITTER. && LAT...LON 3700 11614 3700 11590 3669 11590 3669 11614 $$ STACHELSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:32 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:08 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 7:24 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:02 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 9:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 9:51 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:06 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:17 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:31 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:35 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:45 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 11:58 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:44 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Nye | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:25 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:58 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 12:06 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:13 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:21 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark | 114 min |
| Aug 4, 1:47 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 118 min |
| Aug 4, 2:16 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:21 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:28 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:57 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark, Lincoln | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:45 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Esmeralda, Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:56 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:16 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Clark, Nye | 3 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.