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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2016, 5:12 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. 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
- Sep 2, 2016, 5:12 PM MST (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2016, 8:15 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mohave County, AZ
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
500 WGUS55 KVEF 030012 FFWVEF AZC015-030315- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0121.160903T0012Z-160903T0315Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 512 PM MST FRI SEP 2 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA... * UNTIL 815 PM MST * AT 508 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ALONG MOUNT TRUMBULL LOOP WEST OF MOUNT TRUMBULL. RADAR APPROXIMATES ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THIS AREA THIS AFTERNOON. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... MT. TRUMBULL...MOUNT TRUMBULL LOOP...CRAIGS RANCH ROAD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T 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 3658 11303 3633 11302 3628 11341 3658 11347 $$ CMS
2 follow-up statements
822 WGUS75 KVEF 030147 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 647 PM MST FRI SEP 2 2016 AZC015-030315- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0121.000000T0000Z-160903T0315Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MOHAVE AZ- 647 PM MST FRI SEP 2 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM MST FOR NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY... AT 645 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN NEAR MOUNT TRUMBULL LOOP TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF MT. TRUMBULL. ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN MUCH OF THIS AREA THIS AFTERNOON. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING ON MOUNT TRUMBULL LOOP. TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED IN THIS AREA THIS EVENING. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... MT. TRUMBULL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. && LAT...LON 3658 11303 3633 11302 3628 11341 3658 11347 $$ CMS
184 WGUS75 KVEF 030307 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 807 PM MST FRI SEP 2 2016 AZC015-030315- /O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0121.000000T0000Z-160903T0315Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MOHAVE AZ- 807 PM MST FRI SEP 2 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 815 PM MST... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A THREAT. HOWEVER...LEFTOVER DEBRIS FROM EARLIER FLOODING LIKELY REMAINS ON MOUNT TRUMBULL LOOP. USE EXTREME CAUTION TRAVELING IN THIS AREA OVERNIGHT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 3658 11303 3633 11302 3628 11341 3658 11347 $$ CMS
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.