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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 9, 2015, 2:51 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. 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
- Sep 9, 2015, 2:51 PM MST (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2015, 4:45 PM MST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mohave County, AZ
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
460
WGUS55 KVEF 092151
FFWVEF
AZC015-092345-
/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0113.150909T2151Z-150909T2345Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
251 PM MST WED SEP 9 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA...
* UNTIL 445 PM MST
* AT 251 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN OVER GOLDEN VALLEY. THE RAIN IS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
GOLDEN VALLEY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED ON ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND LOW
LYING AREAS. 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 3531 11422 3529 11407 3515 11413 3518 11428
$$
MORGAN1 follow-up statement
462 WGUS75 KVEF 092228 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 328 PM MST WED SEP 9 2015 AZC015-092237- /O.CAN.KVEF.FF.W.0113.000000T0000Z-150909T2345Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MOHAVE AZ- 328 PM MST WED SEP 9 2015 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE HEAVY RAIN IN GOLDEN VALLEY HAS ENDED...AND NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3531 11422 3529 11407 3515 11413 3518 11428 $$ MORGAN
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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.