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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Las Vegas, NV

June 30, 2016Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2016, 2:04 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada. 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: Jun 30, 2016, 2:04 PM PDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2016, 5:00 PM PDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 231 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

136 
WGUS55 KVEF 302104
FFWVEF
NVC017-023-010000-
/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0013.160630T2104Z-160701T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
204 PM PDT THU JUN 30 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA...
  NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA...

* UNTIL 500 PM PDT

* AT 202 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS HIGHWAY 375 NORTHWEST OF RACHEL. FLASH FLOODING
  IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY AND WILL IMPACT LOW WATER CROSSINGS
  ALONG HIGHWAY 375 THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  RACHEL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3734 11528 3757 11643 3804 11645 3805 11523

$$

OUTLER

2 follow-up statements

518 
WGUS75 KVEF 302224
FFSVEF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
324 PM PDT THU JUN 30 2016

NVC017-023-010000-
/O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160701T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LINCOLN NV-NYE NV-
324 PM PDT THU JUN 30 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM PDT FOR
WEST CENTRAL LINCOLN AND NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTIES...

AT 322 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA ALONG ROUTE 375 IN LINCOLN AND
NYE COUNTIES. FLASH FLOODING THREAT CONTINUES.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
RACHEL AND ROUTE 375.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.

&&

LAT...LON 3734 11528 3757 11643 3804 11645 3805 11523

$$

JH

034 
WGUS75 KVEF 302354
FFSVEF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
454 PM PDT THU JUN 30 2016

NVC017-023-010003-
/O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160701T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LINCOLN NV-NYE NV-
454 PM PDT THU JUN 30 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL LINCOLN AND NORTHEASTERN
NYE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM PDT...

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.

LAT...LON 3734 11528 3757 11643 3804 11645 3805 11523

$$

JH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 5:04 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Esmeralda	3 hr
Jun 30, 12:35 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 30, 12:52 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	38 min
Jun 30, 12:59 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 30, 1:10 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 30, 1:32 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	43 min
Jun 30, 2:26 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 30, 2:30 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	60 min
Jun 30, 2:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	63 min
Jun 30, 2:47 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	88 min
Jun 30, 2:49 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Lincoln	26 min
Jun 30, 2:55 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 30, 3:11 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 30, 3:51 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:13 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	69 min
Jun 30, 4:52 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	68 min

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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.