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Flash Flood Warning 88, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 2016, 2:10 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
- Aug 18, 2016, 2:10 PM MST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2016, 5:15 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), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
850
WGUS55 KVEF 182110
FFWVEF
AZC015-190015-
/O.NEW.KVEF.FF.W.0088.160818T2110Z-160819T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
210 PM MST THU AUG 18 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA...
* UNTIL 515 PM MST
* AT 208 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE MT. TRUMBULL LOOP NEAR TUWEEP.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
TOROWEAP CAMPGROUND...BAR TEN RANCH...MT. TRUMBULL AND TUWEEP.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.
&&
LAT...LON 3629 11279 3629 11283 3628 11284 3628 11287
3626 11289 3626 11292 3623 11296 3624 11302
3617 11313 3618 11316 3616 11318 3647 11337
3662 11295 3630 11278
$$2 follow-up statements
133
WGUS75 KVEF 182235
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
335 PM MST THU AUG 18 2016
AZC015-190015-
/O.CON.KVEF.FF.W.0088.000000T0000Z-160819T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MOHAVE AZ-
335 PM MST THU AUG 18 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM MST FOR
NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY...
AT 334 PM MST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT NEARLY
TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST TWO HOURS.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
TOROWEAP CAMPGROUND...BAR TEN RANCH...MT. TRUMBULL AND TUWEEP.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.
&&
LAT...LON 3629 11279 3629 11283 3628 11284 3628 11287
3626 11289 3626 11292 3623 11296 3624 11302
3617 11313 3618 11316 3616 11318 3647 11337
3662 11295 3630 11278
$$521
WGUS75 KVEF 190006
FFSVEF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
506 PM MST THU AUG 18 2016
AZC015-190015-
/O.EXP.KVEF.FF.W.0088.000000T0000Z-160819T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MOHAVE AZ-
506 PM MST THU AUG 18 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 515 PM MST...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO POSE A
THREAT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 3629 11279 3629 11283 3628 11284 3628 11287
3626 11289 3626 11292 3623 11296 3624 11302
3617 11313 3618 11316 3616 11318 3647 11337
3662 11295 3630 11278
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:30 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 3 hr |
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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.