Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2016, 11:08 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada; Inyo County, California. It was in force for 4 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2016, 11:08 PM PDT (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2016, 3:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Inyo County, CA, Nye County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 1:00 AM PDT | FLASH FLOOD | 8 Ne Shoshone, CA | CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTS THE CLOSURE OF STATE HIGHWAY 178 FROM THE NEVADA STATE LINE TO SHOSHONE AND STATE HIGHWAY 172 FROM SHOSHONE TO DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION OWING TO FLASH FLOODING. TIME OF ONSET APPROXIMATED FROM RADAR. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 383 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
- 1857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
374 WGUS55 KVEF 010608 FFWVEF CAC027-NVC023-011000- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0022.160701T0608Z-160701T1000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1108 PM PDT THU JUN 30 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN INYO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA... SOUTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA... * UNTIL 300 AM PDT * AT 1106 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA FROM AMARGOSA VALLEY DOWN THROUGH DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION AND SHOSHONE. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... SHOSHONE...LATHROP WELLS...TECOPA... DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION AND AMARGOSA VALLEY. 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 3580 11608 3581 11658 3672 11662 3668 11620 $$ JH
2 follow-up statements
587 WGUS75 KVEF 010750 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1250 AM PDT FRI JUL 1 2016 CAC027-NVC023-011000- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0022.000000T0000Z-160701T1000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ INYO CA-NYE NV- 1250 AM PDT FRI JUL 1 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM PDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN INYO AND SOUTHEASTERN NYE COUNTIES... AT 1247 AM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DECREASING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING CONTINUES DUE TO RUNOFF FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAIN. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... SHOSHONE...LATHROP WELLS...TECOPA... DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION AND AMARGOSA VALLEY AND ROUTE 127 IN CALIFORNIA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS. && LAT...LON 3580 11608 3581 11658 3672 11662 3668 11620 $$ JH
049 WGUS75 KVEF 010951 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 251 AM PDT FRI JUL 1 2016 CAC027-NVC023-011000- /O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0022.000000T0000Z-160701T1000Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ INYO CA-NYE NV- 251 AM PDT FRI JUL 1 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN INYO AND SOUTHEASTERN NYE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 300 AM PDT... RAIN HAS ENDED IN THE DEATH VALLEY AREA. FLASH FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 190 BETWEEN DAYLIGHT PASS ROAD AND COW CREEK, SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 3580 11608 3581 11658 3672 11662 3668 11620 $$ MORGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 5:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 42 min |
| Jun 30, 5:54 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 6:26 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 34 min |
| Jun 30, 6:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 10:56 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Nye | 64 min |
| Jun 30, 11:49 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark, Nye | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:34 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Nye | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:54 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:32 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:41 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:06 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:36 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:12 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 3:25 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:05 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 55 min |
| Jul 1, 4:24 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 61 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 2016Flash Flood Warnings in California, 2016Every flash flood warning in 2016
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.