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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

March 10, 2016Sonoma County, California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 10, 2016, 12:02 PM PST for Sonoma County, California. It was in force for 4 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
Mar 10, 2016, 12:02 PM PST (20:02 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 2016, 4:00 PM PST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Sonoma County, CA

The radar

The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2016-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2016-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
312 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

620 
WGUS56 KMTR 102002
FFWMTR
CAC097-110000-
/O.NEW.KMTR.FF.W.0008.160310T2002Z-160311T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA
1202 PM PST THU MAR 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED
A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN SONOMA COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 400 PM PST

* AT 1200 PM PST...GAUGE REPORTS INDICATED HEAVY RAIN FALLING ACROSS
  THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES... WILLOW BROOK
AND LICHAU CREEK.

FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN WILLOW BROOK CREEK FROM PENNGROVE PARK
TO OLD REDWOOD HIGHWAY BRIDGE AND STONY POINT ROAD. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3829 12264 3826 12267 3827 12269 3830 12266

$$
DRP
1 follow-up statement
807 
WGUS76 KMTR 102305
FFSMTR

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA
305 PM PST THU MAR 10 2016

CAC097-110000-
/O.CON.KMTR.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-160311T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SONOMA CA-
305 PM PST THU MAR 10 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM PST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN SONOMA COUNTY...

AT 302 PM PST...GAUGE REPORTS INDICATED HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING OVER
THE WARNED AREA.  FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING STREAMS AND DRAINAGES...PETALUMA RIVER...
WILLOW BROOK AND LICHAU CREEK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3829 12264 3826 12267 3827 12269 3830 12266

$$

BFG

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 2:41 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMTR24 hr
Mar 10, 8:35 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRMarin, Napa, Sonoma3 hr
Mar 10, 10:05 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRMarin, Napa, Sonoma115 min
Mar 10, 11:43 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRMarin, Napa, Sonoma3 hr
Mar 10, 3:48 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningMTRNapa, Sonoma281 days
Mar 10, 3:57 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRSonoma4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in California, 2016Every flash flood warning in 2016

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.