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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2015, 9:23 PM PDT for Esmeralda 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
- May 19, 2015, 9:23 PM PDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2015, 12:15 AM PDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Esmeralda County, NV
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 235 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:24 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
931
WGUS55 KVEF 200423
FFWVEF
NVC009-200715-
/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0003.150520T0423Z-150520T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
923 PM PDT TUE MAY 19 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ESMERALDA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA...
* UNTIL 1215 AM PDT
* AT 920 PM PDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A THUNDERSTORM
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN NEAR DYER. THE STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LIDA...DYER...COALDALE...GOLD POINT...SILVER PEAK...FISH LAKE
VALLEY CAMPGROUND...LIDA JUNCTION...GOLDFIELD AND BOUNDARY PEAK
AND ROADS CONNECTING THESE COMMUNITIES.
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.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3789 11835 3819 11800 3815 11734 3800 11717
3698 11717 3788 11840
$$
JS2 follow-up statements
494
WGUS75 KVEF 200552
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1052 PM PDT TUE MAY 19 2015
NVC009-200715-
/O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150520T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ESMERALDA NV-
1052 PM PDT TUE MAY 19 2015
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1215 AM PDT FOR
ESMERALDA COUNTY...
AT 1043 PM PDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY PRESENTATION AND OCCASIONAL
LIGHTNING STRIKES INDICATE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE
WARNED AREA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALIZED HEAVY
RAIN WHICH COULD LEAD TO RUNOFF ACROSS AREA ROADWAYS. DRIVERS IN AND
NEAR THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO USE CAUTION...ESPECIALLY IN LOW
LYING AREAS OF THE ROADWAY.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...ROADS
CONNECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF LIDA...DYER...COALDALE...GOLD
POINT...SILVER PEAK...FISH LAKE VALLEY CAMPGROUND...LIDA
JUNCTION...GOLDFIELD AND BOUNDARY PEAK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED ON ROADS...IN NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND LOW
LYING AREAS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOODED ROAD OR ENTER A FLOOD
CHANNEL. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO
RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN! REPORT
FLOODING TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VIA FACEBOOK OR
TWITTER.
&&
LAT...LON 3789 11835 3819 11800 3815 11734 3800 11717
3698 11717 3788 11840
$$
JS598
WGUS75 KVEF 200713
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1213 AM PDT WED MAY 20 2015
NVC009-200718-
/O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150520T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ESMERALDA NV-
1213 AM PDT WED MAY 20 2015
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ESMERALDA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1215
AM PDT...
A TRAINED SPOTTER IN THE WARNED AREA REPORTED THE HEAVY RAIN HAS
ENDED. THE LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES CONCENTRATED RAIN
CELLS WERE DISPERSING AS OF MIDNIGHT. FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER
EXPECTED AND THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1215 AM.
LAT...LON 3789 11835 3819 11800 3815 11734 3800 11717
3698 11717 3788 11840
$$
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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.