Alert archive / Arizona / Areal Flood Warnings in 2016
Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this areal flood warning at Aug 2, 2016, 2:03 AM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2016, 2:03 AM MST (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2016, 2:00 AM MST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mohave County, AZ
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Aug 1, 8:47 PM MST, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 8:47 PM MST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 2:41 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:11 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:56 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 2:38 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 6 hr |
| Aug 1, 7:34 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 11:50 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:50 AM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:04 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.