Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Las Vegas, NV

April 8, 2016San Bernardino County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Apr 8, 2016, 6:30 PM PDT for San Bernardino County, California. 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
Apr 8, 2016, 6:30 PM PDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2016, 9:30 PM PDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 235 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, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2016-04-09Temperature 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, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2016-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

211 
WGUS55 KVEF 090130
FFWVEF
CAC071-090430-
/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0001.160409T0130Z-160409T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
630 PM PDT FRI APR 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 930 PM PDT
    
* AT 627 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER US 395 NORTH OF ADELANTO. THESE STORMS
  ARE MOVING NORTHWARD SLOWLY AND PRODUCING RAINFALL AT RATES TO
  1"/HR AT TIMES. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... WEST
  BARSTOW...OWL CANYON CAMPGROUND...EL
  MIRAGE...LENWOOD...HELENDALE...US 395...CA 58. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3482 11763 3507 11763 3504 11699 3479 11716

$$

PULLIN
1 follow-up statement
433 
WGUS75 KVEF 090423
FFSVEF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
923 PM PDT FRI APR 8 2016

CAC071-090430-
/O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160409T0430Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SAN BERNARDINO CA-
923 PM PDT FRI APR 8 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM PDT...

RAIN HAS ENDED IN THE KRAMER JUNCTION AREA...AND NO NEW FLOODING IS
EXPECTED.

THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION REPORTED AT 906 PM PDT
THAT HIGHWAY 395 WAS CLOSED FROM ADELANTO TO KRAMER JUNCTION DUE TO
FLOODING NORTH OF ADELANTO. PLEASE OBEY ALL BARRICADES.

LAT...LON 3482 11763 3507 11763 3504 11699 3479 11716

$$

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.