Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Las Vegas, NV
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.
- 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
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
$$
PULLIN1 follow-up statement
433 WGUS75 KVEF 090423 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 923 PM PDT FRI APR 8 2016 CAC071-090430- /O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160409T0430Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ SAN BERNARDINO CA- 923 PM PDT FRI APR 8 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM PDT... RAIN HAS ENDED IN THE KRAMER JUNCTION AREA...AND NO NEW FLOODING IS EXPECTED. THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION REPORTED AT 906 PM PDT THAT HIGHWAY 395 WAS CLOSED FROM ADELANTO TO KRAMER JUNCTION DUE TO FLOODING NORTH OF ADELANTO. PLEASE OBEY ALL BARRICADES. LAT...LON 3482 11763 3507 11763 3504 11699 3479 11716 $$ 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.