Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2016, 3:42 PM PDT for Lincoln 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
- Jul 3, 2016, 3:42 PM PDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2016, 6:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Lincoln County, NV
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
812 WGUS55 KVEF 032242 FFWVEF NVC017-040145- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0036.160703T2242Z-160704T0145Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 342 PM PDT SUN JUL 3 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA... * UNTIL 645 PM PDT * AT 340 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA ALONG HIGHWAY 317 SOUTH OF CALIENTE. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... KERSHAW-RYAN CAMPGROUND... CABIN PINES CAMPGROUND AND ELGIN AND RAINBOW CANYON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3763 11445 3734 11445 3732 11463 3761 11461 $$ JH
1 follow-up statement
686 WGUS75 KVEF 040027 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 527 PM PDT SUN JUL 3 2016 NVC017-040145- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0036.000000T0000Z-160704T0145Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LINCOLN NV- 527 PM PDT SUN JUL 3 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM PDT FOR EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 524 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA NEAR CALIENTE AND SOUTH ALONG ROUTE 317 SOUTH OF CALIENTE. THIS RAINFALL ALONG WITH RUNOFF FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAIN COULD STILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... KERSHAW-RYAN CAMPGROUND... CABIN PINES CAMPGROUND AND ELGIN AND RAINBLOW CANYON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3763 11445 3734 11445 3732 11463 3761 11461 $$ JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:02 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Esmeralda | 4 hr |
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.