Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2016, 12:55 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 95 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2016, 12:55 PM PDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2016, 2:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Clark County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 4242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
567 WGUS55 KVEF 111955 FFWVEF NVC003-112130- /O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0087.160811T1955Z-160811T2130Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1255 PM PDT THU AUG 11 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA... * UNTIL 230 PM PDT * AT 1254 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NIPTON ROAD WEST OF SEARCHLIGHT. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY. * FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3554 11495 3541 11493 3545 11510 3557 11510 $$ MORGAN
2 follow-up statements
696 WGUS75 KVEF 112037 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 137 PM PDT THU AUG 11 2016 NVC003-112130- /O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0087.000000T0000Z-160811T2130Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ CLARK NV- 137 PM PDT THU AUG 11 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM PDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY... AT 135 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NIPTON ROAD WEST OF SEARCHLIGHT WERE FINALLY BEGINNING TO WEAKEN. HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN INTO SEVERAL TRIBUTARIES OF THE PIUTE WASH WHICH REACH NIPTON ROAD BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 12 AND 16. FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. && LAT...LON 3554 11495 3541 11493 3545 11510 3557 11510 $$ MORGAN
839 WGUS75 KVEF 112126 FFSVEF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 226 PM PDT THU AUG 11 2016 NVC003-112135- /O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0087.000000T0000Z-160811T2130Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ CLARK NV- 226 PM PDT THU AUG 11 2016 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 230 PM PDT... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. WATER MAY STILL BE FLOWING IN THE AREA. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES. LAT...LON 3554 11495 3541 11493 3545 11510 3557 11510 $$ WOLCOTT
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.